• Bacardi heavily promotes their own proprietary variant. Here's how to make your own Mojito at home.

Ingredients

• 2oz Cuban white rum
• 1 lime (or 2 ounces lime juice)
• 1 tsp powdered sugar
• 4 Mint leaves
• Club soda

Garnishes

• Mint Sprig

Glass

• Collins Glass

Instructions

1. Muddle mint leaves and sugar
2. Fill with ice, then add rum and lime juice
3. Stir, then add a splash of club soda
4. Garnish with mint sprig

Variations

• Ernest Hemingway requested Mojitos without sugar. Of course, this suggests that less lime juice be used.
• Sometimes the juiced lime is used as an additional garnish for your Mojito
  
• Due to the trade embargo, Cuban rum cannot (legally) be obtained in the United States; American bars use other light rums.

Related Drinks

• The virgin mojito may be referred to as a fauxjito. Less commonly, the term fauxjito may refer to house drinks that are similar to a mojito in some way or another. As always, when there's some ambiguity it's best to ask the customer what he wants.

• The mojito is a descendant of the Draquecito, named after Sir Francis Drake and said to be his favorite drink before pirate battles. That drink is made with cachaça rather than rum, and uses water instead of ice and soda, neither of which would have been available to Drake on the high seas.