A rosy, bright sour of rye whiskey lifted with lemon and orange juice and tinted pink by a spoonful of grenadine. The two citrus juices and the pomegranate sweetness soften the rye's spicy spine, so it drinks tart, juicy and lively, served up and cold in a coupe with a cherry if you want one.
Garnish: Maraschino Cherry
Shaken · Coupe · Up
add
Combine the rye whiskey, lemon juice, orange juice, and grenadine in a shaker.
shake
Add ice and shake well until chilled.
strain
Double-strain into a chilled coupe, served up.
garnish
Garnish with a maraschino cherry.
The most repeated story places its birth at Locke-Ober in Boston in 1898, where it was supposedly mixed to mark an electoral victory by Martin M. Lomasney, the ward boss whose district, Ward 8, lent the drink its name. That tale is contested — among other doubts, grenadine only became popular after the date claimed — and no individual bartender is credited. The recipe turns up in Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book of 1930, though the drink only truly caught on once Prohibition was over. It also grew into something of a civic emblem for Boston, at one point garnished with a miniature Massachusetts flag.