Base: Rum
El Presidente
White rum with dry vermouth, Curacao and grenadine.
Quick answer: 45 ml white rum • 15 ml dry vermouth • 10 ml Curacao syrup
Content prepared and tested by BrandBar's professional bartending team.
Ingredients
Story
A 1920s Havana classic from the era when Americans flocked to Cuba to drink during Prohibition.
Method
- 1Fill a mixing glass with ice.
- 2Add all the ingredients.
- 3Stir for 20 seconds.
- 4Strain into a chilled coupe.
- Grenadine
- Curacao syrup
- Dry vermouth
- White rum
Pumpkin lattes, spiced rum and desserts — a season that lasts six weeks a year.
Questions and answers
El Presidente: where to get the ingredients?
All 4 items are BrandBar catalogue bottles; the “I want it” button next to each one opens it at brandbar.ua. One bottle lasts for many servings, and some of them go into other recipes too.
El Presidente: what do you need?
45 ml white rum; 15 ml dry vermouth; 10 ml Curacao syrup; 5 ml grenadine; Ice.
What can replace “White rum” in this recipe?
Any item from the same selection will do — for example Rum Barbadoza white 0.7 L. 37.5%, Rum Barbadoza dark 0.7 L. 37.5%, Rum EL Galipote Speced drink 0.7 L, 35%. The taste will change, but the ingredient keeps its role in the drink.
El Presidente: how long does it take?
About 5 minutes, 4 steps.