Twelve Mile Limit

A boozy Prohibition-era sour built on three spirits — white rum, rye, and brandy — pulled into balance by fresh lemon and grenadine. Its name needles the federal government's 1924 move to push the offshore liquor-enforcement boundary from three miles to twelve, sending rum-running party boats further out to sea. Credited to journalist and war correspondent Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard, it reads as a rye-laced cousin of the Three Miller, rounder and rosier than its predecessor.

ClassicSpirit-Forward

Ingredients

  • 1 ozWhite Rum
  • 0.5 ozRye Whiskey
  • 0.5 ozBrandy
  • 0.5 ozLemon Juice
  • 0.5 ozGrenadine

Garnish: Lemon Peel

Preparation

Shaken · Coupe · None

  1. 1.

    add

    Combine white rum, rye whiskey, brandy, lemon juice, and grenadine in a shaker.

  2. 2.

    shake

    Add ice and shake well until chilled.

  3. 3.

    strain

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

  4. 4.

    garnish

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

Flavor Profile

sweet
31%
fruity
31%
dilution
22%
citrus
16%
sour
16%
body
15%