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

Ingredients

5/6 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

5/6 fl oz

Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)

5/6 fl oz

Ketel One Vodka

1 1/4 fl oz

Green melon liqueur

1 1/4 fl oz

Pineapple juice

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.

Prepare garnish by scoring the skin of a whole lime with a citrus zester.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.

Garnish

Garnish with whole lime with scored skin.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Hand Grenade contains 266 calories

Alcohol content:

2.1 standard drinks
17.98% alc./vol. (35.96° proof)
28.9 grams of pure alcohol

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 along 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 cocktail 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.

Comments & Discussion

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Erik Robinson 5y

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.

Morten Hansen 5y

Not too bad, but a bit one dimensional. To my palate, it could do with some tartness; lime or lemon. I might tinker a bit with this later on.

Lee Clarke Premium Member 6y

Mid-week drink in the middle of lock down 2020. Not for me if I’m honest. Boozy, yes but a poor mans Long Island Iced Tea!

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 6y

Agreed. Not a great cocktail but it's all about the serve.

maury hebert 32w

Local New Orleanians (such as myslf)
will tell you the same thing! Even our famed Hurricane is not the drink it was many years ago. The presentation is pretty though.