Sloppy Joe's

Name: Sloppy Joe's
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 25 ml Cognac (brandy); 25 ml Tawny port; 25 ml Pineapple juice; 2.5 ml Orange Curaçao; 1.25 ml Grenadine syrup

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Ingredients
5/6 fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
5/6 fl oz	Cockburn's Tawny Eyes Port
5/6 fl oz	Pineapple juice
1/12 fl oz	Ferrand Dry Curaçao liqueur
1/24 fl oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup

How to make

Glass

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Method

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of pineapple wedge on rim.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Sloppy Joe's contains 120 calories

Alcohol content:

0.9 standard drinks
14.7% alc./vol. (29.41° proof)
12.4 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Tawny port — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

There are two very different vintage cocktails which similar names (the other being Sloppy Joe) that originated at or are named after Sloppy Joe's, a famous bar in Havana, Cuba during the 1930s. Ernest Hemingway was a regular and Sloppy Joe's inspired the fictitious Freddy's Bar in his novel To Have and Have Not.

This recipe adapted from one I found in the variation of the other Sloppy Joe cocktail in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide.

SLOPPY JOE'S COCKTAIL
Cocktail Glass Shake
1 oz lime juice
¼ oz grenadine
¼ orange curacao
¾ oz rum
¾ oz dry vermouth

Variation

¾ oz pineapple juice
¾ oz brandy
¾ oz port
1 dash grenadine
1 dash orange curacao

Shake vigorously with ice cubes. Strain into double old-fashioned glass with ice-con around straw.
Stanley M. Jones, 1977