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Irish Rose

Saint Patrick's Day

4.0 62 ratings

Ingredients

2 oz Irish whiskey
1/2 oz Lemon juice
1/4 oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)
1/4 oz Grenadine syrup
1/2 oz Soda water

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

  1. 3 SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  3. 5 TOP with soda.

Garnish

  1. 6 EXPRESS lemon zest twist over cocktail and use as a garnish with skewered cherry.

Flavour profile

16.8% alc./vol. · 1.4 standard drinks · 183 calories

History

Irish whiskey offers a gentle bite, soured with lemon and sweetened with pomegranate syrup. A splash of soda lightens the drink and adds sparkle.

A recipe for a Wild Irish Rose cocktail first appears Geo. R. Washburne and Stanley Bronner's 1911 book Beverages De Luxe, "As served at Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, Illinois and attributed to "Samuel Foote, Manager Liquor Department". WILD IRISH ROSE Use highball glass. One-half lime muddled. Small toddy. Spoonful Grenadine Syrup. Three-fourths jigger Irish Whisky. Lump highball ice. Fill up with seltzer. Broadly the same recipe is repeated as: - "The Irish Rose" in Kendall Banning's 1912 The Squire's Recipes - "Wild Eyed Rose" in Hugo R. Ensslin's 1916-17 Recipes for Mixed Drink - "Irish Rose" in Jacob A. Didier's 1917 The Reminder - "Wild Irish Rose" in by Joseph P. and Charles A. Sasena's 1933 Fine Beverages and Recipes for Mixed Drinks - "Wild Eyed Rose Cocktail in Patrick Gavin Duffy's 1934 The Official Mixers Manual Wild Eyed Rose Cocktail Juice of 1/2 Lime Z/2 Pony Grenadine 1 Drink of Irish Whiskey Serve with cube of Ice and fizz with Carbonated Water. Use glass number 4. [glass No. 4 is depicted as a stemmed highball.] All the above recipes are based on Irish whiskey with lime juice and grenadine served in a highball glass with carbonated water/seltzer. The exception to this is the Irish Rose in William T Boothby's 1934 The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them which specifies lemon juice (rather than lime), shaken and served in a cocktail glass without the addition of soda. IRISH ROSE Whisky....... 3/5 jigger Lemon........ 1/5 jigger Grenadine... 2 spoons Shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass and serve. I was first introduced to this cocktail as a Wild Irish Rose by Dale DeGroff served straight up (as per the recipe above) as a riff on the Jack Rose. I have subsequently changed the name of this cocktail to a mere Irish Rose as I now consider the highball version with lime juice to be the authentic Wild Irish Rose. [Thanks to research by Stephen Curtin, a fellow Discerning Drinker.]

Also known as Wild Eyed Rose, Wild Irish Rose