The Papa Doble Daiquiri Drink Recipes. Hemingway Daiquiri drink recipe.

DRINK AT YOUR OWN RISK

Really. Check with your Doctor or Pharmacist
BEFORE you drink any of the ingredients listed below!

Alcohol, Grapefruit & Lime Juices, Sugar, Cherry Liqueur

The Hemingway Daiquiri and Papa Doble

Here is "the real story": In an interview with NPR, Hilary Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's niece, explains: "In the early 1930s, Hemingway went into the Floridita to use the restroom one day. People in the bar were bragging about the daiquiris that were being served there. So he ordered one and took a sip. Ernest asked for another one, this time with 'less sugar and more rum.' And that's how the Papa Doble, or the Hemingway Daiquiri, was born."

So there you have it. The Floridita would soon become his favorite Bar in Cuba.

Constantino Ribalaigua Vert owned the Floridita. He tended the bar and was credited at that time as the Best Bar Tender in Cuba. He is also credited for dozens of new drinks that are still popular today. And of course the drink that would go on to become the Hemingway Daiquiri or Papa Doble. Constantino used the 4 ingredients listed below and sugar. Mr. Hemingway tweaked Constantino's original recipe to no sugar and double the rum.

The Hemingway Daiquiri is also called the Papa Doble and is made with:

Light Rum - Lightly aged Cuban if available. St. Croix exports a very good lightly aged rum.
Lime Juice (fully ripe limes fresh squeezed)
Grapefruit Juice (fully ripe unsweetened white grapefruit fresh squeezed)
Maraschino Liqueur (not the juice of the bright red cherries in a jar)

NO SUGAR or SIMPLE SYRUP for Hemingway's Drink! Did you know he was a diabetic?

Okay, okay. I know. Most of the recipes below include sugar or simple sugar. Which technically is not a Papa Doble or Hemingway Daiquiri. Adding sugar will make the drink closer to the original daiquiri recipe by Constantino Ribalaigua Vert which is also very good and refreshing. Please keep reading, or you can Jump to the Papa Doble Recipes

cruzan black cherry rum cruzan lightly aged rum There is a Black Cherry flavored rum from St. Croix that I am going to try in place of the Maraschino Liqueur. I will update on this page and add my recipe if it turns out. It is clear so will not affect the color of the drink. There is also a very good lightly aged white rum from from St. Croix that is the only white rum I use. Both are produced by Cruzan and are available at most liquor stores.

Again, Hemingway preferred his Daiquiri served frappe. In which the ingredients are shaken in ice until well chilled, then strained into a glass filled with finely crushed or shaved ice. Similar to making a Snow Ball that you may be familiar with where a liquid flavoring is added and eaten with a spoon. Use the blender for the shaved ice or a snowball maker if you have one. If you must use a blender don't mix it into a fully frozen daiquiri.

Study the recipes listed below and start with Hemingway Daiquiri one that sounds best to you. I would start with the Traditional Hemingway Daiquiri.

luxardo marischino cherry liqueur luxardo cherry liqueur Luxardo produces both Maraschino and Sangue Morlacco Cherry Liqueur. Can be a little pricey but very little is usually used for the Papa Doble. 6 drops, a teaspoon, not much. A bottle will provide you with many Hemingway Daiquiris or Constantino Daiquiris.

I plan on buying the Sangue Morlacco Cherry Liqueur. I will update this web page after I give it a try. I read it is slightly tart, slightly sweet.

Cheers to Constantino Ribalaigua Vert and Ernest Hemingway!

white grapefruit

papa doble hemingway daiquiri drink recipes

Please Note:

Where it calls for grapefruit, please use fresh squeezed unsweetened white grapefruit juice.

I have not tried this with Key Lime juice, but would like to. Always use fresh squeezed lime juice.

Serve these is a Coupe glass if available. A Coupe was originally used for Champaign!

Please skip the blender and serve these drinks frappe! The frappe method:

Shake well in ice, then strain into a Coupe glass filled with finely crushed or shaved ice.

Hemingway Daiquiri and Papa Doble Recipes

TRADITIONAL HEMINGWAY DAIQUIRI RECIPE:

3 oz White Cuban Rum
1 oz Fresh squeezed grapefruit juice
0.5 oz Fresh squeezed lime juice
1 tsp Maraschino liqueur

Maraschino Liqueur is a clear liqueur do not use the juice of bright red cherries in a jar!

2 1/2 jiggers Bacardi white rum (1 jigger = 1 1/2 ounces) = 3.75 oz.
Juice of 2 large limes
Juice of 1/2 white grapefruit
6 drops of maraschino liqueur
1 - 1 1/2 cups of ice
lime zest and sugar for frosting the glasses

Add all ingredients to a blender, and blend till the ice resembles snow.
Grate the zest of two limes, and mix with a dash of sugar in a shallow dish.
Swipe the rim of the glasses with a lime wedge, and dip in the lime sugar to create frosting.
Pour the frozen drink in the two glasses, and serve with more lime.

Where it calls for grapefruit, please use fresh squeezed white grapefruit juice!

3 oz. white rum
1/2 oz. Maraschino liqueur
2 oz. grapefruit juice
1 oz. lime juice
1 oz. simple syrup
Garnish
2 dashes Angostura bitters, or a peel from the grapefruit

hemingway drink In a shaker with ice, add the rum, Maraschino liqueur, grapefruit and lime juice, and simple syrup.

Cap and shake vigorously for 45 seconds.

Strain into two cocktail glasses and garnish each with the bitters or grapefruit peel.

Hemingway would usually skip the garnish. But it is really up to you.

4 oz. light rum
1½ oz. fresh lime juice
1 oz. fresh grapefruit juice
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp Maraschino liqueur
Glass type: Cocktail

Hemingway aboard his Yacht Pilar

hemingway pilar Add all of the ingredients to a cocktail shaker and fill with ice.

Shake, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

The Coupe glass was originally used for champagne before the flute became popular.

1.5 oz Papa’s Pilar Blonde Rum
.5 oz fresh Grapefruit, freshly squeezed
.75 oz fresh Lime juice, freshly squeezed
1 tsp Marashino liqueur
1 tsp Sugar

Blend well with ice Serve in a large chilled Coupe glass.

There is a Pilar Rum Distillery in Key West, in Old Town, on Simonton Street. Take the Tour the next time you visit Key West.

Where it calls for a Cocktail glass please use a Coupe or Daiquiri glass

2 oz white rum
¾ oz fresh grapefruit juice
½ oz fresh lime juice
¼ oz Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
¼ oz simple syrup 1:1
Grapefruit Twist for Garnish

Hadley was 8 years his senior and reminded him of his nurse that treated him (and he fell in love with) at the Italian Front during the First World War. He volunteered to drive an ambulance at the age of 18. A mortar shell had landed in his trench.

ernest and hadley hemingway wedding 1921 Shake all ingredients in a cocktail strainer with ice until very cold

Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a grapefruit twist.

Hemingway and his first Wife Hadley Richardson on their wedding day in 1921.

Hemingway is said to have downed 17 Papa Doble's in one night!

2 oz White Rum75 oz Lime Juice
1 tsp Maraschino
1 tsp Grapefruit Juice
1 tsp Sugar

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Serve frappe.

Constantino Ribalaigua Vert created his Floridita Daiquiri with just 5 ingredients.

1 1/2 ounces light rum
1 T Luxardo or other maraschino liqueur
3/4 ounce lime juice
1 T limeade concentrate or simple syrup
1/2 ounce grapefruit juice
Lime wheel and a maraschino or Luxardo cherry to garnish (optional)

sloppy joe's wall Add all of the ingredients except the garnishes to an ice filled cocktail shaker.

Shake or stir and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Raise your glass to Ernest Hemingway

Sloppy Joe's Bar walls in Key West are full of Hemingway memorabilia.

Let's raise our glass to Ernest Hemingway, cheers, Papa. The recipe below omits Maraschino Liqueur. Try it both ways or try the Sangue Morlacco Cherry Liqueur

Ice cubes or crushed ice
6 tablespoons light rum (3 oz)
1/4 cup lime juice (2 oz)
2 tablespoons grapefruit juice (1 oz)
1 teaspoon simple syrup
1 lime slice

papa with his friends In a highball or tall glass over ice,

mix rum, lime juice, grapefruit juice and simple syrup.

Garnish with lime slice.

Above: Hemingway holding court drinking with "his fools" and other writers

2 oz White Rum
¾ oz Grapefruit Juice
¾ oz Lime Juice
¼ oz Maraschino Liqueur
1 Lime Slice

papa with pauline

Hemingway and wife number 2 married in 1927. Known as the Paris Wife. Pauline Pfeiffer. Hemingway went on to divorce Pauline and marry Martha Gellhorn.

The 6 toed cats are permanent guests at the Hemingway Home and Museum.

2 ounces white rum
¾ ounce fresh lime juice
½ ounce white grapefruit juice
½ ounce maraschino liqueur

hemingway cat

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker half filled with ice. Or is the cocktail shaker half empty?

Shake until well chilled Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Say Hello to the 6 toed kitty at the Hemingway Home in Key West!

Papa Doble is also known as Daiquiri Number 3. Don't know what is in Daiquiri Number 2

Papa Doble Daiquiri Number 3

3¾ ounces white rum
2 ounces fresh lime juice
2 ounces white grapefruit juice
6 drops of maraschino liqueur.

Papa Hemingway with one of his beloved cats sitting in his studio at his desk in Key West.

hemingway with cat

Please feel free to omit the sugar or simple syrup from the recipes.

1½ ounces white rum
¾ ounce lime juice
¼ ounce grapefruit juice
¼ ounce maraschino liqueur

Can you imagine drinking 17 of these drinks in one night?

hemingway with his hemingway daiquiri

As you may have noticed, most of these have the same ingredients but in differing quantities. Have some fun! Keep mixing these until you find the perfect Papa Doble!

2 ounces white rum
¾ ounce lime juice
½ ounce grapefruit juice
1 teaspoon simple syrup or sugar
1 teaspoon maraschino liqueur.

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