Name: Pink Palace
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Grand Marnier; 10 ml Lime juice; 5 ml Grenadine syrup

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Monin Grenadine Syrup

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Pink Palace contains 152 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
24.07% alc./vol. (48.13° proof)
19.4 grams of pure alcohol

Review

This drink's sweet-sour balance and degree of pink hue is relative to how generous you are with the grenadine.

(When made with homemade fresh pomegranate syrup in place of grenadine, and you hit the perfect balance, this drink is delicious but sadly lacks the eponymous pink hue with the result being more golden-amber.)

Comments & Discussion

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Tuber Magnatum Premium Member 1y

So tried this again tonight and as my original comment used a smaller Nick and Nora glass rather than coupe which better matched the volume. It may be our "local" (i.e. supermarket) limes are overly sour, but I also increased the grenadine to 7.5 ml which again for me better balanced the sour. Your limes may differ! Regardless, it is an excellent cocktail.

Beverly Stanton 1y

Only had Gran Gala, was very happy with this cocktail. Would recommend ,sweet yet not overpowering. Will need to try with Grand Marnier. The more I sip the more I like.

Tuber Magnatum Premium Member 2y

Lovely drink and indeed a pretty colour! My only comment is that the first time I prepared this drink (shaken with dry ice, not wet), I served it as suggested in a coupe (6oz). At the time I thought the volume would better suit a Nick and Nora glass (5 oz) so this time that's what I used which I believe is a better match for the volume.

Chris Dimal 2y

Definitely concur with the review, especially the part in the parentheses, as the grenadine I made this time was with pomegranate molasses added to it, sadly muddying the colour too. Nonetheless, I do feel that my previous grenadine without the molasses will still be almost as good with a nicer colour.

Tuber Magnatum Premium Member 2y

Interesting as I used home made syrup with pomegranate syrup / molasses (Jeffrey Morgenthaler recipe) and still had a very nice pink colour. I used fresh squeezed pomegranate so I don't know if that made a difference.

Chris Dimal 2y

You're absolutely right. Made this drink again, this time with fresh pomegranate juice immediately going into the grenadine itself and the colour is truly vibrant. Everyone, please use Jeffrey Morgenthaler's recipe with FRESH pomegranate juice (not even juiced and then bottled in a store). The colour and flavour is truly delectable.

Morten Carlsbaek Premium Member 35w

Very interesting replies below to you comment. I found Jeffrey Morgenthaler's 2009 recipe online (though now he doubles up on sugar so 2:1). Anyway, I dont have the sort of juicer needed and I tried using a carton of fresh juice but in my view, fresh pomegranate juice tastes of very little (Morgenthaler do add some pomegranate molasses...). Until now, I have been using the very good House Grenadine recipe from the Cocktail Codex book by Alex Day, Nick Fauchald and David Kaplan but replacing the cartoned juice with 100 % pomegranate concentrate without sugar (bought in a local Turkish grocery store), and mix it - 60 % vol. part water 40 % vol. part concentrate. The Cocktail Codex recipe: 250 g juice, 0,15 g pure orange blossom olie (the key ingredient in orange blossom water) which I lower to 0,12 g, 1,85 g powdered malic acid, 1,25 g powered citric acid and 250 g unbleached cane sugar. In my first years of being a cocktail enthusiast, I just used cranberry concentrate being commonly available here in Denmark, and it worked very well (just lacking a bit of orange taste). I would never use the mainstream, artificial grenadine - it is like strawberry ice creme without strawberry.

Chris Dimal 35w

Thanks for the reply Morten. Interesting comment about the pomegranate juice. Could be pomegranate quality. I find it to have a distinct fruity, savoury and bitter taste. I do use pomegranate molasses as well. I since also found out that the colour of your grenadine is made or broken by the arils themselves. If they give out a light colour, you'll get a bad appearance, whereas if they have a strong magenta colour, I get a beautiful red once I add the molasses. Eitherway I still stand by juice + molasses wherever possible.

Lindsey Wilson 2y

Love the colour and sweet/sour balance. It was slightly strong so I added 50ml tonic which went very nicely with it.

Miguel Perales Premium Member 4y

A nicely balanced drink. I agree that this leans towards the sour side but not by much (used homemade Grenadine syrup)
P.S Loving the changes to the website (Aug/2/22). Much easier to navigate. Great job!

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 4y

Thanks, Miguel. It's great to see much-anticipated changes finally live - now we have a lot of tweaking to do, plus we still have much new functionality to roll out. Exciting!

John Hinojos Premium Member 4y

What an interesting cocktail. Has the great herbal notes from the gin along with the fruit flavours. Cocktail is nicely balanced and very easy to drink. Sugar level is spot on as we like our cocktails on the sour side. Very colourful.

Scott from Fife Premium Member 5y

A very drinkable accessible balance of flavours with a hint of depth from the grand marnier, and a very subtle balance of sharp and sweet from the lime juice and grenadine. A delicate pink colour makes this an accessible favourite of favourites for me.