Light Rum, shaken
Stan Lee
Barline 1h,Q,Q,h,1,c
The code is the shorthand off my printed menu; the Key tab decodes every letter.
- 1 1/2 oz Light rum
- 3/4 oz Gin
- 3/4 oz Lime juice
- 1/2 oz Grenadine
- 1 dash Angostura bitters
Shake hard with ice, then strain.
Coupe.
Taste
An ounce and a half of light rum and three-quarters gin, so the rum leads and the gin is botanicals underneath. Three-quarters lime, half an ounce of grenadine, one dash of Angostura. Pink, bark through the pomegranate. Shaken, coupe.
History
There is no Stan Lee in the pre-1970 manuals, or by that name in Difford's, Punch, or Imbibe. The nearest parent is Harry Craddock's Stanley Cocktail in the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book: equal gin and rum, a sixth each of lemon juice and grenadine. The split base and the grenadine stay, lime replaces lemon, rum leads at an ounce and a half against three-quarters gin, and a dash of Angostura is added.
Same shape, other bottles
The Sour family, with the bottle that changed.
- Buster Brownbourbon and lemon juice for light rum, gin, and lime juice
- Expatbourbon and simple syrup for light rum, gin, and grenadine
- Mexican Firing Squadtequila for light rum and gin
- Winter Daiquiriaged rum and demerara syrup for light rum, gin, and grenadine
- Bennettsimple syrup for grenadine
- Daiquirisimple syrup for grenadine
This is one drink on my home bar's menu. Tick the bottles you own and the menu lists which of all 185 drinks they pour, or read the index of every drink.