May 18-Nuclear Daiquiri

Yes you read that right, and no I did not choose this cocktail as a special today. The Nuclear Daiquiri is really the #84 cocktail in this experimenmt we are doing. For those who don’t know, this cocktail is a widely infamous cocktail among friends of mine for being as strong as nearly 2 drinks in one. I am of course refering to the standard drink measure bartenders use. Most cocktails we talked about run from 1 standard drink to 1.3. This one will run you up to 1.7. This is also a very hard cocktail to make here in the US right now because of one ingredient, Green Chartreuse. Yes, if you do not have Green Chartreuse or a substitute like Faccia Brutto you are plum out of luck. The cheapest I saw the real thing for online was about $90.

Enough about chartreuse, let’s get into the cocktail. It’s a rum cocktail using whiote overproof Jamaican rum such as Wray and Nephew. Despite being in a Caribbean area, I could not find it or any other version of a white Jamaican Rum. Therefore I used my favourite rum Papa’s Pilar as it is higher proof. I would make sure to use a blonde or silver rum in this cocktail as colour is one of the main things that ghive it its name so if you use like a blackstrap rum you’ve completely wasted good chartreuse for no reason.

Now for the history, this cocktail was made in 2005 at LAB in London, the same bar that was created by the guy who madse one of the last cocktails we will talk about and #1 on the list, the Pornstar Martini. The bartender that made it was Gregor de Gruyther. Aside from that Difford’s Guide doesn’t give much. I still really enjoy this cocktail and playfully called it the Chernobyl Daiquiri with friends.

Full Judging here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eg_fPj-8uiUxWQtqt2Ng1H1aGT3IKCJWhObQ7AVXBJY/edit?tab=t.0