Find Your Signature Summer Sipper With These Daiquiri Recipes

Summer’s so close, and we’re excited to share some Toronto-local Daiquiri recipes courtesy of the expert bartenders from Canada’s 100 Best Bars. —Vita Daily

Destination Daiquiri 

Ingredients:  

·       1 ¾ ox Appleton Estate Signature Rum 

·       ¼ oz Wray & Nephew OP Rum 

·       1 oz lime juice 

·       ¼ oz maple syrup 

·       1 tsp light brown sugar 

·       5 dashes Fernet-Branca bitters 

·       1 pinch sea salt 

·       2 sprays peated whisky 

Garnish: 

·       Lime wedge 

Combine rums, juice, syrup, sugar, bitters and salt over ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake, double strain over ice into a rocks glass, finish with a couple of sprays of whisky and garnish.  Courtesy of Massimo Zitti, Mother Cocktail Bar.

The Margot Daiquiri  

Ingredients: 

·       2 ½ oz Appleton Estate 12 YO Rare Casks Rum 

·       1 tbsp loose leaf black tea 

·       1 oz lime juice 

·       ½ oz agave syrup 

·       ¼ oz Aperol 

Garnish: 

·       ½ Grapefruit wheel 

Combine rum and tea in a cocktail shaker and steep for one minute. Add ice, juice, agave and Aperol and shake well. Fine strain over ice into a rocks glass, and garnish. Courtesy of Christina Veira, Bar Mordecai.

The Miso Daq Attack 

Ingredients:  

·       2 oz Appleton Estate Signature Rum 

·       1 oz lime juice 

·       2/3 oz simple syrup 

·       1 tsp brown miso 

Garnish: 

·       Shiso leaf 

·       Lime wheel 

Combine rum, juice, syrup and miso with ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake well, strain over ice into a rocks glass and garish. Courtesy of Nick Kennedy, Civil Liberties.

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