July 6-El Presidente

El Presidente is a cocktail that is claimed to be a daiquiri varitaion but isn’t really in my opinion outside of the rum. I can justify the replace lime juice with vermouth to make it an El Presidente, but then you also add curacao for the simple syrup and a splash of grenadine. All these together take away from the simplicity a daiquiri has. It’s not too complex of as cocktail but again it’s not as simple as a daiquiri should be.

Outside of that this cocktail is pretty satisfying all in all. The dry curacao and vermouth work really well together and the rum rounds it all out. The only trhing I couldn’t figure out was the grenadine. It’s just such an inconsiquential amouth of something that is not as strong as something you would usually only use a splash of. Things that are overpowerign to hell and back like orange blossom water get this treatm,ent, not something like grenadine.

Full judging here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ur3EcuzW_ckuy1eG3nwI5trkJSrLTjN3cTEk3LQyynA/edit?tab=t.0