Cuba Libre cocktail

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Cuba Libre Cocktail

  • Medium

A medium-strength cocktail, stirred until cold, served in a collins glass.

Serve in: collins glass

Ingredients

How to Make a Cuba Libre

Instructions

  1. Pour the lime juice into a glass over ice cubes.
  2. Add rum, fill with cola, stir, and serve.

Garnish

For decoration use some lime wedge.

Tips & substitutions

  • No rum? Try gin.
  • No limes? Try lemons.

The glass

Serve this one in a collins glass. A collins glass is a glass tumbler which typically is used to serve mixed drinks, especially Tom Collins or John Collins cocktails. It is cylindrical in shape and narrower and taller than a highball glass.