Banana Daiquiri Take #653
Boozy banana smoothie
- Method
- Blended
- Style
- Tropical
- Glass
- Tiki glass
- Time
- 5 min
Ingredients
- 30mlGold Rum
No Gold Rum? Light Rum — cleaner and sharper — the drink loses some body and colour
- 30mlLight Rum
No Light Rum? Gold Rum — a little oak and caramel where light rum is clean — fine anywhere the drink isn't meant to be crisp
- 15mlCreme de Banane
- 15mlLime Juicefreshly squeezed
- 7.5mlDemerara Syruprich, 2:1
No Demerara Syrup? Simple Syrup — clean sweetness with none of the molasses depth — fine in a sour, a real loss in a tiki drink
- a dashAngostura
No Angostura? Old Fashioned Bitters — close to Ango, with the same spicy notes — just not the standard bottle
- 1Banana
- Garnish
- Banana dolphin with a cherry, and an orchid
Make it well
Blended, properly.
Grab a liquidiser for this one
Cut your banana in half, saving the stem end (we're going to make a dolphin)
Into the liquidiser, add your spirits (minus the ) and half the banana with a scoop of and until slushy
Pour into a glass or a mug and top with a of bitters and a straw
Garnish with anything you like
It's great to drink at this point! If you want to add the dolphin, here's how:
Using the top half of the banana you've saved, split the stalk in half to form a mouth. Hold it open with a cocktail cherry. Cloves work well for the eyes.
If you're really going for it, use Pineapple fronds to make the fins - you might just need to cut into the banana first.
On the palate
On the nose it's frosty and fresh, you get the rum and a hit of banana. On tasting, really, it's a banana smoothie with a hit of rum at the end. This is a beach bar cocktail from your holidays! A really fun one but dangerous. The rum is cleverly disguised here. An absolutely delicious drink for summer, BBQs and holiday vibes.
Where it came from
This cocktail was featured on the menu at the Archipelago bar in Washington DC when it opened, and has remained a firm favourite ever since. The name is the joke and the point. Take #653, as in take 652 wasn't quite there either. Banana daiquiris have a reputation problem and it's mostly deserved, earned over decades by slush machines and syrup that has never been near a banana. The fix is the obvious one: use an actual banana, use a rum you'd drink on its own, and stop there.
Keep pouring
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The bartender’s note
One drink, one story, one bottle worth buying.
Thursday evening, so you have time to shop. No more than that.