Name: Pineapple and Cardamom Daiquiri
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 4 whole Green cardamom pods; 50 ml Light white rum; 37.5 ml Pineapple juice; 10 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 4 drop Daiquiri bitters

Pineapple & Cardamom Daiquiri
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Glass:

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
4 whole	Green cardamom pods
1 ²⁄₃ fl oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
1 ¹⁄₄ fl oz	Pineapple juice
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
4 drop	Difford's Daiquiri Bitters optional

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of pineapple wedge.

How to make:

MUDDLE cardamom in base of shaker.
Add other ingredients.
SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Garnish with pineapple wedge on rim.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Green cardamom and pineapple are a match made in heaven, here laced with rum to produce a super tasty Daiquiri.

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History:

A riff on Henry Besant's excellent Pineapple & Cardamom Martini by yours truly, revisited and rebalanced in May 2026 at The Clocktower, Rye, England.

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Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

15.8 grams of pure alcohol

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kim vincent

15th June at 01:19

Oh sure, NOW I read the comments to muddle them to bits 😂 Nice pineapple daiquiri, though!

Simon Sedgley

16th May at 13:53

Very flavoursome but one really does need to smash the cardamom pods to extract good flavour...we used a stone mortar and pestle. btw we notice that the photographs of this and the Besant cocktail are the same.

Simon Difford

16th May at 14:54

The image pre-dates digital photography. I've added to my list to revisit.

Vera Lycaon

12th October 2024 at 07:51

Oh, this one's good - muddling your cardamom pods well is key however, make sure to crush them open (depending on your muddler, you may have better luck using the handle side like I did). Used Havana Club 3 Years instead of my El Dorado 3 by accident and added a dash of Peychaud's to stand in for the daiquiri bitters, need to try with the other rum soon.

Avery Garnett

11th August 2023 at 16:31

I even used a cardamom syrup and I got almost none of it. Just a pineapple daiquiri, sadly.

Avery Garnett

14th August 2023 at 10:39

I meant I both muddled the pods and also used a cardamom syrup. Maybe I didn't muddle them enough.

Simon Difford

12th August 2023 at 08:10

Sounds like you didn't muddle the cardamon pods. Syrup is not as intense as the pods.

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G. M. Genovese

3rd July 2023 at 15:30

So good that I made it twice, but ran out of pineapple juice during the mix. So, I adjusted and, volume-wise, I used 37.5 ml pineapple, 15 ml lime juice this second time. Still good (more mellow, but with more 'heat' from the cardamom?), but a slight bit more tart without that sweetening balance... I prefer the recipe above.

G. M. Genovese

3rd July 2023 at 15:20

Wow! I thought the Besant drink had a lot of potential, but wow this just puts all the pieces in the right place. Not a thing to tweak. I used Bacardi Carta Blanca and, though I'm intrigued to try other brands with this, I feel it's the best white rum one could use here. Superb! (3 Jul 2023, 11:20a)

George Scott

9th June 2023 at 01:55

What a great introduction to the use of spices in cocktails! Cardamom is one I've been interested in experimenting with for a while but hadn't quite got around to it, this was a real delight and dangerously easy to drink.

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