After the one at Superbueno — what does charred corn do in a sour?
Fifth version
Start your own line from any of Rosa's 5 versions. Their recipe becomes your v1; what you do from there is yours, and their name stays on it. Reading needs no account; making it yours does.
Lemon, ml30 → 25 across 4 cooks25mlat v5
v5 · 8 Oct — 15ml tequila, bourbon down to 45
The changes in v5
15ml tequila, bourbon down to 45
Close to the best
v5 · 8 Oct · against v4
Close to their best. Worth keeping.
What v5 taught
“Smoke and corn. Keep it.”
So far
Five versions since September 2026. The best yet is v4, after turns at v3. Last cooked 4 days ago.
The recipe
As it stands, at v5
v1v2v3v4v5
Ingredients
bourbonchanged once, last at v5
blanco tequilachanged once, last at v5
lemon juicechanged once, last at v4
charred corn syrupchanged 2 times, last at v3
egg white
In the glass
Strength
14.0% abv
a daiquiri: 15.0
Sugar
6.9g / 100 ml
a daiquiri: 8.9
Acid
0.67%
a daiquiri: 0.85
The ice adds about 50% water — 125 ml in, about 187 ml in the glass, from 21.0% to 14.0%.
Beside a daiquiri: 60ml white rum · 22.5ml lime juice · 22.5ml simple syrup, made the same way.
What's been moving
Both halves have moved: the charred corn syrup most among the ingredients, and steps 1 and 4 in the method.
Never touched: 20ml egg white
Method
01
Make the syrup: char 2 cobs over a flame, cut off the kernels, simmer cobs and kernels in 300ml water for 30 minutes, strain, and dissolve an equal weight of sugar
30 min20ml charred corn syrup
02
Dry shake everything for 10 seconds
10 s
03
Shake again with ice, hard, for 12 seconds
12 s
04
Fine-strain into a coupe and dust with charred corn
20ml charred corn syrup
How it runs
The method in time — what needs hands, and what can happen at once.
37 minon the table
Every step waits for the one before, as written. 7 min of it needs your hands.