Cuba Libre

The Cuba Libre (”Free Cuba”), sometimes called Cubalibre, is a highball made of Cola, lime, and rum.

2 oz white rum
Juice of 1/2 Lime
cola

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

Accounts of the invention of the Cuba Libre vary. One account claims that the drink was invented in Havana, Cuba around 1900. Patriots aiding Cuba during the Spanish-American War and, later, expatriates avoiding Prohibition regularly mixed rum and Cola as a highball and a toast to this West Indies island.