Name: Commodore No. 2
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 25 ml Bourbon whiskey; 25 ml White crème de cacao; 25 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Grenadine syrup

Ingredients

⁵⁄₆ fl oz

Bourbon whiskey

⁵⁄₆ fl oz

Giffard White Crème de Cacao Liqueur

⁵⁄₆ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Monin Grenadine Syrup

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass filled with crushed ice.

Garnish

Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Commodore No. 2 contains 148 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
16.09% alc./vol. (32.18° proof)
13.8 grams of pure alcohol

History

The second of two Commodore cocktails in Albert S. Crockett's 1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days, both served frappé. Crockett's Commodore No.1 is rum-based and without crème de cacao liqueur. He stipulates the No.2 recipe as:
"One-third Lemon juice
One-third Bourbon Whiskey
One-third Crème de Cacao
Dash Grenadine Syrup
Frappé in champagne glass"

Comments & Discussion

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Tony Jones 1y

Really successful from the standard recipe!
The brown cacao brings some viscosity, and its sweetness balances with the lemon's sour.
The grenadine makes a pretty pink; the low dose of bourbon provides interest without overpowering.
First brown cacao cocktail, and it's a winner!

Tony Jones 1y

Ha - after saying I'd done this from the standard recipe, I spotted the recipe wants white c de c!
Giffard's bottles are great value, but I'm not buying both, am I!?

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 2y

I don't like to sweat the small stuff but in your history of this cocktail I suspect that you meant to say "stipulates", not "stimulates". btw I now have one of your jiggers and what an excellent little thing it is...bravo.

Paloma Difford Verified User Premium Member 2y

Hi Simon, thanks for spotting our typo...now fixed! Happy to hear you're enjoying the Easy Jigger 😊

Chris Dimal 3y

An absolutely delectable dessert drink with woody, intense Bourbon, fruity sweetness of grenadine, nice, dessert notes of the Cacao and the lemon to provide acidity and balance. But the serve was a disaster as my drink overflowed over the crushed ice, resulting in at least a third of the drink being wasted. What a crying shame!