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The El Floridita bar in Havana celebrated legendary
US writer Ernest Hemingway's 113th birthday Saturday with super-sized
cocktail.
Hemingway spent many years in Cuba and was a regular customer at
the bar located in Havana's old town. According to legend, his drink
of choice was a daiquiri without sugar.
To celebrate the birth of the Nobel Prize-winning author, El
Floridita's proprietors mixed a drink that it hopes will land them in
the Guinness Book of World Records.
Twenty bartenders combined 88 bottles of white rum, crushed ice
and lemons to create a 275-litre (75-gallon) cocktail. More than
1,000 drinks are expected to be distributed from a receptacle
measuring 1.95 metres (6 feet) high.
