Creolita

Name: Creolita
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 8 ml Bénédictine; 45 ml AñEjo Rum; 1 pinch Salt Rim; 15 ml Lime Juice; 15 ml Sweet Vermouth; 8 ml Amer Picon

Shaken añejo rum with lime juice and sweet vermouth, deepened by Amer Picon and Bénédictine. The salted rim sharpens the bitter and sweet notes. Created by Frederic Yarm in Boston in 2019.

Frederic Yarm devised the Creolita in 2019 as a Daiquiri version of the Manhattan-style Creole cocktail, swapping the whiskey for rum and adding lime juice. The base was the classic Cuban Floridita Daiquiri recipe with sweet vermouth and two sweeteners, and a dash of salt countered an initial bitterness.

Method

Shaken

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Herbal

Sour

Sweet