Jack Rose

Taste

An ounce and a half of apple brandy, three-quarters lime, three-quarters grenadine. Lime, so the sour is sharp and green. Equal grenadine means the drink is as pink as it is tart; the apple sits under pomegranate. Shaken. Coupe.

History

David Wondrich traces the Jack Rose to Frank Haas at Fred Eberlin's downtown New York bar, named in the New York Press in 1899. Jacob Grohusko's 1908 Jack's Manual is the first printed formula. By Jacques Straub's 1914 Drinks it had become applejack, lime, and grenadine. The name is disputed: Wondrich favors the General Jacqueminot, or Jack, rose, a pink hybrid the drink resembles; Frank J. May claimed it in the 1905 Police Gazette; Bald Jack Rose, the 1912 Rosenthal-case informant, is a later story, and the drink predates him. This menu is Straub's three-ingredient drink: an ounce and a half of apple brandy, three-quarters lime, three-quarters grenadine.

• The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails, The Jack Rose
• Difford's Guide, Jack Rose Cocktail

Same shape, other bottles

The Sour family, with the bottle that changed.

• Santiagolight rum for apple brandy
• Bee's Kneesgin and lemon juice for apple brandy and lime juice
• Gold Rushbourbon and lemon juice for apple brandy and lime juice
• Honeysucklelight rum and honey syrup for apple brandy and grenadine
• Southsidegin and simple syrup for apple brandy and grenadine
• Daiquirilight rum and simple syrup for apple brandy and grenadine