Name: Rumba
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Rum - Overproof white; 30 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 15 ml Grenadine/pomegranate syrup; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix); 15 ml Chilled water (omit if using wet ice)

Serve in a

Double old-fashioned

Garnish:

Lime wedge

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain into glass filled with crushed ice. Serve with straws.

1 fl oz	Gin
3/4 fl oz	White overproof rum
1 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Grenadine/pomegranate syrup
1/4 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
1/2 fl oz	Chilled water (omit if using wet ice)
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Review:

To quote Embury, "Whoever thought up this snootful of liquid dynamite certainly liked his liquor hard!"

History:

Recipe adapted from David Embury's classic book, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks.

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
16.59% alc./vol. (33.18° proof)
19.9 grams of pure alcohol

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