Name: Nelson's Blood No.2
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Navy rum (ideally 54.5% alc./vol.); 45 ml Cranberry juice; 22.5 ml Orange juice; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 12.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2 dash Aromatic bitters

Nelson's Blood No.2
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Navy rum (ideally 54.5% alc./vol.)
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Cranberry juice (sweetened)
³⁄₄ oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
0.42 oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
Garnish with lime wedge.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

The pungent flavours of naval rum contribute to this tasty, fruity rum punch and will warm your cockles – m' hearties!

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History:

A cocktail promoted by the marketers of Pusser's Rum.

Nutrition:

One serving of Nelson's Blood No.2 contains 211 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
12.31% alc./vol. (12.31° proof)
18.2 grams of pure alcohol

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Chris Brislawn

26th March at 04:17

Even bloodier (and tastier) if you replace the orange juice by 1 oz blood orange juice and the sugar syrup by 1 tsp pomegranate syrup or liqueur.

Morten Carlsbaek

14th July 2024 at 11:02

Very fresh juicy cocktail, and the taste of Pusser gunpowder proof rum certainly cuts through all the juices, even with "only" 45 ml rum. I had to up the amount of orange juice due to bland oranges at hand. And next time, I shake with more ice cubes to ensure less thining down of the cocktail.

John CARR

31st May 2024 at 11:56

Fruity, tangy and (of course) rummy. Very easy drinking.

Renz C

3rd December 2023 at 15:51

Tried this with the spiced version of navy strength rum that Pusser's make, it is fantastic. By chance we had warm stollen to eat alongside, actually goes rather well indeed!

Chad Hatcher

3rd July 2023 at 03:16

Great rum drink, I’ve swapped the cranberry with pineapple, mango/papaya purée too and it still holds up.

Nathalie O'Flynn

17th November 2022 at 22:32

Great party night cocktail, normally I do Tiki cocktails at night and this was as good as one well apart from that my husband thinks there are demons out there in the garden, hearing funny noises but let’s not think about this that’s another story

John Hinojos

27th January 2022 at 20:49

This was wonderful. Being big rum drinkers it was perfect cocktail with a meal or alone. We used an overproof Navy Rum which gave it a little more punch and a little less syrup. Made it delightfully dry with a lot of punch.

Martin Pryce

6th January 2022 at 21:29

An unusual twist on a fruity rum punch, goes down rather too well, the cranberry adds a slight dryness not usually found with tiki type punches. I would however use two full ounces of rum next time!