Largest Daiquiri

It took a team of ten bartenders and 55 volunteers to concoct the rum, lemon and sugar cocktail last weekend at the El Floridita tavern, Old Havana.

Standing on a wooden platform, two waiters continuously poured pitchers of the mixture into a 6.5ft tall cocktail glass as other members of the record-breaking team prepared the ingredients. Anders Aranciba the Floridita  Manager  said that they were very happy  and it was their dream for more than  a year to turn it into a reality. The attempt also celebrated the 113th birthday of Nobel Literature prize winner Hemingway, a regular customer at the bar during his time living in Cuba. The name  Daiquiri   is also the name of a beach near  Santiago, Cuba , and an   iron mine in that area, and it is a word of  taino  origin. The daiquiri was supposedly invented by an American mining engineer, named Jennings Cox, who happened to be in Cuba at the time of the Spanish-American War.

Originally the drink was served in a tall glass packed with cracked ice. A teaspoon of sugar was poured over the ice and the juice of one or two limes was squeezed over the sugar. Two or three ounces of white  rum   completed the mixture. The glass was then frosted by stirring with a long-handled spoon. Later the Daiquiri evolved to be mixed in a   shaker   with the same ingredients but with shaved ice. After a thorough shaking, it was poured into a chilled flute glass.

Cuban mixologists   whipped up a giant daiquiri weighing in 71 at gallons, in the Old Havana tavern where the tropical cocktail was born and where regular barfly Ernest Hemingway made it  popular , setting the world record for the Largest Daiquiri. It was also staged to honour the 195th anniversary of the bar itself, where the cocktail was first thought to have been created. The bar bills itself as the  cradle of daiquiri.  Ricardo Antonio a resident  sounded excited and said that  it was great for the three seasons .One because  they were in the land of Daiquiri, in the home of daiquiri  and above all were celebrating  the birthday of Hemingway  and previous world record for more  than 250 liters.  The event was staged to honor the 195th anniversary of the bar El Floridita, which means "Little Florida" in Spanish. For a half-hour, two waiters stood atop a wooden platform pouring pitcher after pitcher of the slushy rum, lemon and sugar concoctions into a 6.5-foot-tall fiber-composite cocktail glass. A misty vapor wafted over the lip as the liquid neared the rim. 

The Largest Daiquiri  weighed 71 gallons was set by Floridita Bar at Havana,  Cuba on July 22, 2012.