Cuba Libre
The Cuba Libre is a Cocktail which consists of Rum, Coca Cola and lime juice.
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Historical Quotes
PORTS OF THE SUN: A GUIDE TO THE CARIBBEAN, BERMUDA, NASSAU, HAVANA AND PANAMA (1937)
- by Eleanor Early
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company
Pg. 289 (HAVANA): "There is a bar at the airport, and the customs doctor bought me my first _Cuba Libre_, which is a drink that Cubans love, though I cannot tell you why. It is made of Bacardi and Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola kills the Bacardi, which makes it silly if you happen to like Bacardi."
12 July 1938, CATERING INDUSTRY EMPLOYEE, "Cocktails for Two by James E. Hickey," pg. 33, col. 2
"The Cuba Libre is zooming up to new popularity heights already this summer...It is rum and Coca-Cola, and the prim Coca-Cola people don't like the idea so much."
Common Recipes
Trader Vic's Recipe #1
From "Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide" (1972)
- 1 oz Philippine or light Puerto Rican rum
- 1/2 oz Fresh lime
- Coca Cola
Squeeze lime jice into 12 oz chimney glass 3/4 full with ice cubes; save shell. Add rum. Add Coca Cola to fill 3/4 full. Stir lightly. Add spent shell.
Trader Vic's Recipe #2
From "Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide" (1972)
- 1 Lime
- 2 oz Light Puerto Rican rum
- Coca Cola
Cut lime and squeeze juice into highball glass, dropping in shells. Muddle lime shells. Add ice cubes to nearly full and rum. Fill with Coca Cola.
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- Build
- 1 1/2 oz light rum
- Fill with ice, Cola
- Squeeze of lime
- Serve in a tall glass
Recipe: Dale DeGroff
- 2 oz. Cuban Rum
- Coca Cola
- Lime wedge
Pour the rum over ice in the highball glass and fill with Coca Cola. Squeeze in a lime wedge.
