Name: Jack Dempsey
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Light white rum; 15 ml Gin; 15 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 10 ml Chilled water (omit if using wet ice); 2 Saline solution 4:1

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Speakeasy Coupe 8.5oz

Ingredients:
1 1/2 fl oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
1/2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1/2 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/3 fl oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup
1/3 fl oz	Chilled water (omit if using wet ice)
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with maraschino cherry.

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Strength & taste guide:

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

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Variant:

Dempsey

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide., this cocktail celebrates Jack Dempsey, world heavyweight boxing champion from 1919 to 1926.

JACK DEMPSEY
Cocktail Glass
Shake
1/2 oz lemon juice
1-1/2 oz rum
1/2 oz gin
3/4 tsp sugar
Stanley M. Jones, 1977

Nutrition:

One serving of Jack Dempsey contains 162 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
18.7% alc./vol. (37.4° proof)
17.8 grams of pure alcohol

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