Jack Rose Cocktail

The Jack Rose first appeared in print in Jacob Grohusko’s 1908 Jack’s Manual, though a New York bartender named Frank Haas was reportedly making them as early as 1899. The name most likely comes from a simple combination: it’s made with applejack and colored rose-pink by grenadine. Hemingway gave it a literary cameo — Jake Barnes sips one at Paris’s Hôtel de Crillon in The Sun Also Rises — and David Embury included it among his ‘six basic drinks’ in 1948. Apple brandy, grenadine, and fresh lime juice, shaken and served up. The applejack gives it a subtle fruitiness that sets it apart from every other sour in the canon.