Hemingway Cocktail

After one sip of this refreshing and bracing beverage, you just might believe the legend that this was Hemingway's favorite cocktail. ...MORE+ LESS-

Angie McGowan

July 31, 2012

Ice cubes or crushed ice

tablespoons light rum (3 oz)

1/4

cup lime juice (2 oz)

tablespoons grapefruit juice (1 oz)

teaspoon simple syrup

lime slice

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In highball or tall glass over ice, mix rum, lime juice, grapefruit juice and simple syrup. Garnish with lime slice.

To make a frozen version of this cocktail, place all ingredients in a blender. Cover and blend on high speed until ice is crushed and drink looks frothy. You can also shake the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and pour into a chilled cocktail glass, straining out the ice.
A Havana bartender is credited with creating this daiquiri-like cocktail for one of his famous patrons, author Ernest Hemingway, in the 1920s.