Just like any other aspect in life, whether it be food or travel plans, trying out different cocktails should also be a part of your bucket list. Besides traveling to other parts of the world, it might also be a great way to try out new and exotic cocktails. Thanks to the varying cultures, there is also a wide array of signature cocktails that you can only find in their designated location. Some of these cocktails are famous enough that you to see them in your local bars and bistros.
So, let’s go and take a look at some of the most famous signature drinks that are sure to knock your socks off.
Puerto Rico’s Piña Colada
This drink is often found in tropical-themed bars because of its fantastic summer flavors. It’s an easy-to-drink cocktail composed of pineapple juice, rum, coconut cream, and finally topped off with ice.
Most bars garnish their Piña Coladas with pineapple wedges as well as cherries. These fruits give us that fresh summer vibe.
The creator of these delicious drinks seems debatable since both the Caribe Hilton hotel and the Barrachina restaurant claimed to be the inventors.
Brazil’s Caipirinha
The Brazillian Caipirinha is a refreshingly sweet cocktail designed to help people cool off in the warm summer days of Brazil. This cocktail is supposedly made with authentic cachaça, a distilled spirit based on fermented sugarcane juice.
Aside from the liquor, it’s also mixed in with both sugar and lime, then topped off with ice. This drink has been in existence since the early 1500s, making it one of the longest-running cocktails in our time.
Britain’s Pimm’s No. 1 Cup
This next drink is a classic favorite among gin drinkers, especially in the northern regions of the United Kingdom. This British cocktail is composed of gin, a dark liquor, and either lemon soda or ginger ale, depending on the bartender.
This drink is often garnished with mint, cucumbers, strawberries, an array of citrus, and on rare occasions, apple slices. This gin concoction seems to have been invented by the one and only James Pimm around 1823 and 1840.
Havana’s Mojito
This Cuban drink has been a mainstay among its people thanks to its flavors and how refreshing it can be. Although its origin is difficult to sort out, a traditional Mojito is composed of five ingredients. A good Mojito starts with a good white rum, followed by sugar, lime, carbonated water, and finally, mint.
The mint makes it so iconic since it was the first among many drinks that had mint mixed in. There have also been recordings of Mojitos made with lemon or lime-based soft drinks instead of just plain carbonated water.
Italy’s Negroni
This Italian cocktail is known for being relatively strong and stirred instead of blended when mixing the ingredients. Whether it affects the flavor or not, stirring gin, vermouth, Campari, and orange peels is bound to equate to a fantastic drink. You can definitely enjoy it before a meal.
Its origins say that it was invented in a cafe in Florence by a man named Camillo Negroni when he asked the bartender to put in gin instead of carbonated water in his Americano cocktail.
Thanks to their fame, it has become a lot easier to get your hands on one of these cocktails. So what’s stopping you? Safely head out to your local bars now and try out some of the most amazing drinks mentioned earlier.
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