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.