Name: Hand Grenade
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 25 ml Gin; 25 ml Light white rum; 25 ml Vodka; 37.5 ml Green melon liqueur; 37.5 ml Pineapple juice

Hand Grenade
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
⁵⁄₆ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
⁵⁄₆ oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
⁵⁄₆ oz	Ketel One Vodka
1 ¹⁄₄ oz	Green melon liqueur
1 ¹⁄₄ oz	Pineapple juice

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare garnish of whole lime with scored skin.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.

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Review:

A blend of white spirits sweetened and melon flavoured by the addition of green-coloured melon liqueur.

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History:

This recipe is an interpretation of the notorious Hand Grenade cocktail served by the three Tropical Isle Bars and the Funky Pirate on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, USA.

Pam Fortner and Earl Bernhardt founded their Tropical Isle bar for the Louisiana World Exposition in 1984 and with the bar came its melon-flavoured Hand Grenade signature cocktail. Marketed under the trademarked strapline "New Orleans Most Powerful Drink" and, since 1992, served in long plastic half-yard hand-grenade shaped vessels, this green melon flavoured proprietary drink is available as a pre-mix by mail order from tropicalisle.com. The recipe used to make this and the cocktails served in the Tropical Isle bars is a well-kept secret.

Beware, in the USA the operators of Tropical Isle have trademarked Hand Grenade so preventing other establishments not licensed by Tropical Isle from selling cocktails of this name.

Nutrition:

One serving of Hand Grenade contains 266 calories

Alcohol content:

2 standard drinks
18.53% alc./vol. (18.53° proof)
27.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Erik Robinson

18th July 2021 at 20:08

My wife told me that she wanted to make a refreshing summer cocktail. I asked what was in it and when she said "vodka" I was in.
I tried it and my first thought was that it tasted like the hand grenades I had in NO.

It's about nothing like this recipe. A large (pitcher size) packet of generic Crystal Light, about a cup of vodka. ice, a few forks of pickled ginger and about a cup of water in the blender. Probably not as strong as the grenades I had, but the taste was spot on. Picked ginger.