El Presidente Cocktail Recipe

Name: El Presidente Cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1.5 oz Rum; 0.25 oz Triple Sec; 0.75 oz Dry Vermouth; 2 dashes Angostura Bitters; 5 ml Grenadine

Created in Cuba in the 1920s, named after President Gerardo Machado. A rum-based, vermouth-heavy cocktail.

Ingredients

Method for creating a El Presidente cocktail

Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a coupe glass Note: Better to use aged rum for this spirit-forward drink

Garnish

Orange Twist

Glassware

Coupe

Ice

No Ice

Nutrition Information for El Presidente

Calories: There are 152 kcal in El Presidente
ABV: El Presidente has an ABV of 31%

Calorie Breakdown for El Presidente

Ingredient	Dose	Cal/oz	Calories
Rum	1.5 oz	70 cal/oz	105 kcal
Triple Sec	0.25 oz	60 cal/oz	15 kcal
Dry Vermouth	0.75 oz	30 cal/oz	23 kcal
Angostura Bitters	2 dashes	120 cal/oz	5 kcal
Grenadine	5 ml	54 cal/oz	9 kcal
Total			152 kcal

ABV Breakdown for El Presidente

Cocktail booziness measures the amount of alcohol in a drink, expressed both as total alcohol volume (ml) and as a percentage of Alcohol By Volume (ABV) of the overall drink size.

Ingredient	Dose	ABV%	Alcohol (ml)
Rum	1.5 oz	40%	18.0 ml
Triple Sec	0.25 oz	30%	2.3 ml
Dry Vermouth	0.75 oz	18%	4.0 ml
Angostura Bitters	2 dashes	44.7%	0.5 ml
Total alcohol			25.0 ml
Cocktail size			80 ml
ABV = 25 / 80 × 100			31%