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Hemingway Daiquiri

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Coupe

El Floridita's grapefruit-and-maraschino daiquiri, blended slushy for Papa Hemingway.

rum cuban daiquiri-variant blended frozen lime grapefruit
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Ingredients

  • fresh lime juice (1 oz)
  • fresh grapefruit juice (1 oz)
  • maraschino liqueur (6 drops)
  • white Cuban rum (3.75 oz)
  • crushed ice (1 cup)
  • lime wheel (1)

Instructions

  1. In a blender combine fresh lime juice, fresh grapefruit juice, maraschino liqueur, white Cuban rum, and crushed ice.
  2. Blend on high for until slushy.
  3. Pour unstrained into a chilled double coupe.
  4. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Sources

  1. "Hemingway Special Daiquiri / Papa Doble." Difford's Guide. https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/954/hemingway-special-daiquiri-papa-doble (accessed 2026-05-03), documents Constantino Ribalaigua Vert's El Floridita creation, Hemingway's "without sugar and double rum" haemochromatosis-related modification, and the later Antonio Meilan refinement that added maraschino and grapefruit. ↩
  2. Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum (2006), El Floridita / Hemingway material, narrates Hemingway's El Floridita patronage and the Papa Doble's double-rum / no-sugar specification. ↩
  3. Wondrich, Imbibe! (2007), Daiquiri material, situates the Papa Doble within the Floridita's Daiquiri No. 1 through No. 4 sequence and the Death & Co craft-revival reformulation lineage. ↩