Blinker

Taste

Two ounces of rye, an ounce of grapefruit, half an ounce of grenadine. The grapefruit is sour and bitter where lemon would be only sour, and the grenadine's pomegranate sits under it as the sugar. Rye spice on top, a pink colour. Shaken, coupe. Drier than it looks.

History

Patrick Gavin Duffy prints it in 1934 in The Official Mixer's Manual as a long drink: three parts grapefruit juice to two of rye and one of grenadine. David Embury, in 1948, called it not particularly good but not too bad. Ted Haigh recut it in Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails in 2004 as a short sour, two of rye to one of grapefruit with a teaspoon of raspberry syrup, and that is the shape the revival kept; PDT printed it in 2011. Haigh's shape holds here, with grenadine for the raspberry: two ounces of rye, an ounce of grapefruit, and half an ounce of grenadine, shaken, coupe.

• Difford's Guide, Blinker
• Punch, A Forgotten Rye Whiskey Cocktail Makes a Comeback

Same shape, other bottles

The Sour family, with the bottle that changed.

• Brown Derbybourbon and honey syrup for rye and grenadine
• Daiquirilight rum and lime juice for rye and grapefruit juice
• Gimletgin and lime juice for rye and grapefruit juice
• Santiagolight rum and lime juice for rye and grapefruit juice
• The Rum Drinklight rum and lime juice for rye and grapefruit juice
• Vodka Gimletvodka and lime juice for rye and grapefruit juice