19th July: NATIONAL DAIQUIRI DAY

Each year on July 19, people across the United States fill their glasses with a rum-based cocktail and toast to National Daiquiri Day. Raise your glass and celebrate National Daiquiri Day! A daiquiri is a type of cocktail made with rum, citrus juice (usually lime), and sugar. In the early 1900s, in the small mining town of Daiquiri near Santiago, Cuba, an engineer named Jennings Stockton Cox created a simple drink called a Daiquiri.

It may be difficult to believe how the daiquiri came to be, tasting of sunshine and beaches. During the Spanish-American War in 1898, men blasted away in the mines of a small community off the coast of Cuba. Jennings Cox, an American engineer, oversaw a mining operation in the Daiquiri village.

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Cox and his employees would congregate at the Venus bar every day after work. Cox then mixed Bacardi, lime, and sugar in a tall glass of ice one day. He named the new drink after the Daiquiri mines, and it quickly became a Havana favorite. Someone eventually added shaved ice, and occasionally lemons or both lemons and limes were used.

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“Remember always to drink responsibly and never to drink and drive”