{
  "id": "cuba_libre",
  "version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "front_image": "20260111_094044831_iOS.jpg",
    "back_image": "20260111_094050384_iOS.jpg"
  },
  "title": {
    "key": "cocktail.cuba_libre.title",
    "default": "Cuba Libre"
  },
  "ingredients": [
    {
      "key": "cocktail.cuba_libre.ingredient.1",
      "item": {
        "key": "ingredient.lime",
        "default": "lime"
      },
      "amount": 0.5,
      "unit": "whole",
      "metric": {
        "amount": 0.5,
        "unit": "whole"
      }
    },
    {
      "key": "cocktail.cuba_libre.ingredient.2",
      "item": {
        "key": "ingredient.aged_white_rum",
        "default": "aged white rum"
      },
      "amount": 1.5,
      "unit": "fl_oz",
      "metric": {
        "amount": 50,
        "unit": "ml"
      }
    },
    {
      "key": "cocktail.cuba_libre.ingredient.3",
      "item": {
        "key": "ingredient.chilled_coca_cola",
        "default": "chilled Coca-Cola"
      },
      "amount": 4,
      "unit": "fl_oz",
      "metric": {
        "amount": 120,
        "unit": "ml"
      }
    }
  ],
  "instructions": {
    "key": "cocktail.cuba_libre.instructions",
    "default": "In accordance with the version of this drink in Charles H. Baker's Gentleman's Companion (1939), I'm a strong advocate of a quick lime muddle as the first step of construction. Squeeze the lime juice into a separate vessel and drop the spent shell into a highball glass. Squash it to remove the oils, then add cubed ice, rum, lime juice and cola. Give it a good stir with a barspoon and add more ice or cola if desired."
  },
  "history": {
    "key": "cocktail.cuba_libre.history",
    "default": "Just because a mixed drink only contains two or three ingredients, it doesn't discount it from being a great contender. Despite our overfamiliarity with it, Coca-Cola is an undeniably brilliant and, dare I say it, complex product. The fact that I'm drawn to drink it on both a hot summer's day and a cold winter's evening is an achievement that cannot be ignored. And the fact that it pairs so well with rum should not come as a surprise—citrus, spice, and light floral aromatics are all long-time bedfellows of cane spirit."
  },
  "tasting_note": {
    "key": "cocktail.cuba_libre.tasting_note",
    "default": "Citrus, spice, and light floral aromatics paired with the complex sweetness of cola and the clean spirit of aged rum."
  }
}