Joan Bennett

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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 oz Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
3⁄4 oz Giffard Parfait Amour liqueur
2 oz Pineapple juice
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of pineapple wedge and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  4. STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 5/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 4/10
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Review:

Fruity, floral and slightly sweet with an unfortunate yellow-green colour.

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History:

Adapted from a cocktail featured in Jeff Berry's Intoxica and originally created in 1932 at Sloppy Joe's Bar, Havana, Cuba. Named after Hollywood ingénue, Joan Bennett, who in the same year starred in Fox's Careless Lady. Years later she hit the news when her husband, producer Walter Wanger, shot her agent in the crotch after catching them in bed together. Oo-err!

Nutrition:

One serving of Joan Bennett contains 179 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.2 standard drinks
  • 13.62% alc./vol. (13.62° proof)
  • 17.4 grams of pure alcohol

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Joshua Engler’s Avatar Joshua Engler
27th January 2022 at 03:08
I used Creme de Violette and it tastes like it looks, green and herbal. It's a very nice tiki drink, albeit a little sweet for my taste.
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John Hinojos’ Avatar John Hinojos
14th December 2021 at 02:39
For a tiki drink, it is not very sweet which is a plus. But the colour is very strange. Was not as purple as the picture, but a strange purple greenish colour. I would make the drink again, but use curacao instead of the Parfait Amour.
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