Sour
Jack Rose
3 min.Applejack
Ingredients
- 6 cl
- 2.25 cl
- 2.25 cl
- CocktailGlass type
Step-by-step
- Chill a cocktail glass in advance.1
- Add the applejack, lemon juice and grenadine to a shaker.2
- Fill the shaker with ice.3
- Shake vigorously until well chilled and the shaker is frosted on the outside.4
- Strain into the chilled cocktail glass.5
- Serve immediately without garnish.6
Flavor profile
- fruitysoursweet
Specs
- Origin
- The Jack Rose is a classic American pre-Prohibition cocktail that pairs applejack with citrus and grenadine, documented in bar manuals by the 1910s. It appears in Jacques Straub’s 1914 Drinks in a form recognizably similar to today’s recipe and is later codified in Harry Craddock’s The Savoy Cocktail Book. David Embury enshrined it in 1948’s The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks as one of his six basic cocktails, cementing its status in the canon.History
- The most widely accepted origin story credits New York bartender Frank J. May, nicknamed “Jack Rose,” who is said to have created the drink while working at Eberlin’s on Wall Street. The cocktail features prominently in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, where the narrator orders a Jack Rose early in the book. Contemporary press in 1913 noted a slump in Jack Rose orders after the Baldy Jack Rose murder scandal, suggesting the drink was already well known by then. The name is often linked to its base of applejack and the rosy color from grenadine, though historians view this as a likely post-hoc explanation.Trivia
- Sharp cheeses, Pork dishes, Roast chicken, Apple dessertsPairings
- The Savoy Cocktail BookSource