Rum Stone Sour

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (30 ratings)

Glass:

Photographed in an Urban Bar Freddo Old Fashioned

Ingredients:
1 23 oz Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
34 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
34 oz Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
12 oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
2 dash Orange Bitters by Angostura
3 drop Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s
× 1 1 serving
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Prepare:

  1. Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
  2. Prepare garnish of skewered half orange slice wheel and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry (sail).

How to make:

  1. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  2. FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish:

  1. Garnish with skewered half orange wheel and maraschino cherry (sail).

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 7/10

Review:

A great sour with one rum, but perhaps try a split base of rums.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Vincent Sardi Jr. & George Shea's 1988 Sardi's Bar Guide.
As for the origins of this cocktail, David Wondrich says "in 1972, the O.J.-and-Bacardi version starts appearing in the Chicago suburbs, whence it spreads to the rest of the Midwest, California, and eventually Sardi's, right there on little old West 44 Street. Back in Greater Chicago, it apparently began as a golf course and country club drink, but beyond that its origin was unknown.

RUM STONE SOUR
2 ounces rum
1 teaspoon superfine sugar
1 ounce lemon juice, preferably freshly squeezed
2 ounces orange juice, preferably freshly squeezed
½ slice orange or lemon for garnish
1 maraschino cherry for garnish
Combine ingredients with ice cubes in a cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into cocktail glass, or empty contents, ice cubes and all, into an Old-Fashioned glass and serve on the rocks. Garnish with ½ slice orange or lemon and a maraschino cherry.

Vincent Sardi & George Shea, Sardi's Bar Guide, 1988

Nutrition:

One serving of Rum Stone Sour contains 170 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.1 standard drinks
  • 13.4% alc./vol. (26.79° proof)
  • 14.8 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos’ Avatar John Hinojos
10th January at 03:52
This cocktail was great. Made one with sugar syrup and the other with homemade grenadine. Prefer the grenadine - gave the cocktail a little more colour.

Next time we will substitute the sugar syrup for passion fruit liqueur to give it a more tiki/tropical flavour without the sweetness of most tiki cocktails.
Godhaspinkhair  ’s Avatar Godhaspinkhair
24th August 2024 at 06:48
Delicious! Works beautifully with blood oranges as well if you have them on hand.