Rum

Floridita Daiquiri No. 2

Name: Floridita Daiquiri No. 2
Yield: 1 servings

Glass: Coupe

The grapefruit-juice Floridita Daiquirí, Constante's house variant that prefigures the Hemingway by a generation.

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Ingredients

fresh lime juice (0.5 oz)
fresh grapefruit juice (0.5 oz)
simple syrup (0.5 oz)
white Cuban-style rum (2 oz)
cracked ice (1 cup)
grapefruit twist (1)

The 1935 El Bar la Florida Cocktails No. 2 is built on curaçao + orange juice (not grapefruit); the grapefruit-based Floridita Daiquirí is No. 3, the structural ancestor of the Hemingway / Papa Doble (corpus #10). The grapefruit-No.-2 framing common in modern bars is a popular contemporary interpretation rather than a recovery of the 1935 catalog's No. 2.¹ The spec below preserves the grapefruit-shaken-coupe build as it's typically reproduced today, but readers should know this is not the as-printed 1935 No. 2.²

Brand recommendations. Best: Havana Club 3 Año (where legal) or Caña Brava for the white Cuban-style rum, fresh-squeezed white grapefruit (sharper than ruby), fresh lime. Economical: Bacardi Carta Blanca or Don Q Cristal, standard supermarket grapefruit juice if necessary (white preferred over ruby), standard simple syrup.

Instructions

In a shaker combine fresh lime juice, fresh grapefruit juice, simple syrup, and white Cuban-style rum.
Add cracked ice and shake hard until very cold, about .
Strain into a chilled coupe.
Garnish with a grapefruit twist.

Sources

Constantino Ribalaigua Vert, El Bar la Florida Cocktails (Havana, 1935), the primary 1935 source for the house numbering. The 1935 No. 2 is documented as a curaçao + orange juice variant; the grapefruit-juice spec commonly labeled "1935 No. 2" today is not in the 1935 catalog, that's No. 3. ↩
Berry, Potions of the Caribbean (2014), El Floridita / Hemingway / Papa Doble chapter, documents the No. 2 → No. 3 (Hemingway) lineage and frames the Hemingway as Constante's no-sugar, double-strength frozen variant of the No. 2 grapefruit template; cross-referenced with Wondrich, Imbibe! (2007). ↩