Jack Rose

The Jack Rose is a pre-Prohibition American sour built on applejack — apple brandy — laced with grenadine and brightened by lime, its rosy blush giving the drink half its name. It bloomed in the bars of New York and New Jersey in the early 1900s, with competing legends crediting a bartender named Frank J. May, a Newark restaurateur, and the simple marriage of applejack and grenadine. Hemingway's Jake Barnes drinks one in The Sun Also Rises, sealing its place in the canon.

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Ingredients

  • 2 ozApple Brandy
  • 1 ozLime Juice
  • 0.5 ozGrenadine

Garnish: Lemon Peel

Preparation

Shaken · Coupe · None

  1. 1.

    add

    Combine the apple brandy, lime juice, and grenadine in a shaker.

  2. 2.

    shake

    Add ice and shake hard until well chilled.

  3. 3.

    strain

    Double-strain into a chilled coupe, served straight up.

  4. 4.

    garnish

    Express a lemon twist over the surface and drop it in.

Flavor Profile

fruity
49%
sweet
29%
dilution
27%
citrus
25%
sour
23%
body
20%
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