Name: Knickerbocker
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 75 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 5 ml Orange Curaçao; 15 ml Raspberry syrup; 15 ml Lime juice

Knickerbocker
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
2 ¹⁄₂ oz	Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
¹⁄₆ oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Raspberry (framboise) sugar syrup
¹⁄₂ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

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Garnish: Squeezed-out half lime shell & seasonal berries: raspberries, blackberries, blueberries

How to make:

SHAKE first all ingredients with ice and strain into glass 2/3rd filled with cubed ice. Cap with crushed ice, serve with a straw.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Fruity and refreshing – a party drink with rum and raspberry flavours predominating. At its best when made with homemade raspberry syrup.

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History:

The Knickerbocker cocktail first appears in Jerry Thomas' 1862 The Bartender's Guide. For the full story see our Knickerbocker Cocktails page.

Nutrition:

One serving of Knickerbocker contains 231 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
21.39% alc./vol. (21.39° proof)
23.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Avery Garnett

22nd April 2024 at 17:51

Strangely sweeter than expected. Good, but a bit much raspberry and not much else.

Florian Ruf

4th March 2023 at 20:10

To get a sweet cocktail I reduced to 2 oz rum and used ½ oz Chambord and ⅓ oz raspberry syrup. Nice drink for the sweet tooth.

David Teager

29th December 2022 at 03:05

Was a good option for a friend who prefers sweeter drinks. Rather than a raspberry syrup, I used a mix of framboise and the syrup from good maraschino cherries. But I retained the silly garnish idea, for which my friends roundly derided me. LOL

Chris Dimal

21st November 2022 at 10:11

Made homemade raspberry syrup and decided to make this drink with it. Not my favourite. While the appealing raspberry notes were there, the 75ml of rum was just too spirit forward for me. Definitely have to reduce it the next time I'm making this, or increase the syrup. I do note that I didn't do the crushed ice on top. Also, the mandarin liqueur (in place of the Curaçao) just disappeared.

Isaac Miller

23rd June 2022 at 01:27

I make this with 2oz light rum (Flor de Cana), 1/2oz spiced rum and a half barspoon of raspberry jam instead of syrup.
Delish, and something that kicks back way too easily.

Brian O'Connor

19th April 2021 at 04:08

Love this drink. Maybe it's just my raspberry syrup, but making it to-the-recipe in my opinion it needs a little more sweetness/color/complexity. Adding 1/6 oz grenadine does the trick!

Brian O'Connor

19th April 2021 at 14:26

I made it with a homemade syrup recipe from a different website. Now I'm seeing that you actually have a recipe here, which looks a lot more concentrated - will have to try that next time!