Name: Queen's Park Hotel Super Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 15 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 15 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Grenadine syrup; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 3 dash Aromatic bitters

Ingredients

1 1/2 fl oz

Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)

1/2 fl oz

Strucchi Rosso Vermouth

1/2 fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

1/4 fl oz

Monin Grenadine Syrup

1/4 fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

3 dash

Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lime zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Express lime zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Queen's Park Hotel Super Cocktail contains 170 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
16.83% alc./vol. (33.67° proof)
16.4 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Recipe adapted from If Crab No Walk: A Traveller in the West Indies, a 1932 book written by British travel writer Owen Rutter, who writes of the Queen's Park Hotel, Port of Spain, Trinidad, "The cooking is good; the servants, though slow, are attentive; there is an excellent ballroom, a first-rate band, and a good bar: 'the Long Bar with the Brass Rail,' where you may drink the Queen's Park Hotel Super Cocktail."

Review

It is perhaps best described as a Trinidadian Daiquiri due to its heavy use of Angostura Bitters. According to Owen Rutter, it was also originally made with Trinidad gold rum, Canning's Caroni Rum. (If using homemade 2:1 pomegranate syrup rather than grenadine, use 15ml (½oz) and omit sugar syrup.)

Comments & Discussion

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Matt 24w

I made this as written above, but swapped the Strucchi Rosso for Dolin Rouge as that's all I had. Absolutely wonderful!

Calvin Grant Premium Member 29w

Super good! Grenadine aplenty comfortably nestled in amongst the sweet vermouth and the Angostura and tempered by the sour lime plus sufficient rum. I used Bacardi Gold. Curious to try it with a dash or two of Rum Fire.

Lu Xu 49w

Tried to replace the simple syrup with rosolio di bergamotto. Smells great, tastes great.

Robert Dougherty 1y

I made this cocktail with Planteray Double aged Rum and it tastes just like cola...

rudy sebille 1y

perfect balance of all the ingredients if you respect the exact dos...a great discovery

Loïc Pierre 1y

Very enjoyable, easy to drink. After reading the comments, I tried it two times, both without sugar syrup, and increasing to 1/2 oz the grenadine syrup. I found it better with only light rum (the first time I put a little bit of Smith and Cross). I still found it quite sweet, maybe I would try next time with the right amount of grenadine and sugar syrup (and another time without sugar sirup? And maybe another time...).

Florian Ruf Premium Member 1y

Remade this cocktail after a long time and it tasted wonderful again. Using de Kuyper grenadine the first time I found it perfectly colored but with little grenadine taste, so I decided to skip the sugar syrup and instead to use more of this.

Tuber Magnatum Premium Member 1y

An excellent cocktail. For my palate, I found the addition of simple syrup as given in the recipe to perfectly balance the lime juice and my current batch of homemade grenadine. I suspect that in this cocktail the significant variables will be the acidity and sweetness of the limes and grenadine used so I understand why even if two discerning drinkers had similar flavour profiles, they may find the need to alter the simple syrup added.

Kim Josefsen Premium Member 1y

Exceptional cocktail, definitely try it with other rums, it makes for lovely variations. A Jamaican white took the prize for me.

Peter Shaw Premium Member 1y

New batch of homemade grenadine and, like others, 15ml of this and no need for simple syrup. This forces you to revisit the cocktail every time you make grenadine… not an onerous task.