The mojito is the drink that turned a generation of non-rum-drinkers into rum-drinkers. Something about the combination of fresh mint, lime, sugar, and bubbles is just fundamentally correct. It works in summer. It works in winter. It works at 2pm at a beach bar and at 8pm at a proper restaurant. Ernest Hemingway allegedly had one at La Bodeguita del Medio in Havana and never looked back. The rest of us followed. Here’s the secret the sober community figured out fairly quickly: the mojito might be the easiest classic cocktail to go non-alcoholic without losing anything meaningful. The rum in a classic mojito is doing less work than you think. The mint, the lime, the sugar, the fizz — that’s where the drink lives. Take the rum away and what you have left is still genuinely delicious. We call...
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