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."
"Vintage Cocktails" by Susan Waggoner and Robert Markel (1999)
"According to court documents filed many years after the fact, the first Cuba Libre was mixed in Cuba in August 1900.... While some experts assert that it didn't become popular until after World War II, our favorite intrepid imbiber Charles Baker reports that by the late 1920s it was ubiquitous from Palm Beach to Seattle."
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.
Cocktaildb.com
- 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.
