Cuba's Floridita bar, one of the favourite haunts of US writer Ernest Hemingway during his time in Havana, mixed a giant 275-liter daiquiri to beat the world record as part of the celebrations of the establishment's 195th anniversary.
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The bartenders hold up empty pitchers after filling an oversized fiber-composite cocktail glass with daiquiris.
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Ernest Hemingway's life-sized sculpture sits barside. Legend has it that Hemingway, who took his daiquiris without sugar, once downed 13 doubles in one sitting. Bartender Alejandro Bolivar prepares a daiquiri to help fill a giant fiber-composite cocktail glass at El Floridita tavern in Old Havana, Cuba.
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Standing on a wooden platform, Eduardo Bautista, right and Labrador Ahmed pour pitchers of daiquiris. The event was staged to honor the 195th anniversary of the bar, which means "Little Florida" in Spanish and bills itself as the "cradle of the daiquiri."
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The giant cocktail also honored the 113 years since the birth of its most famous frequent customer, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway.
