Name: Flamingo
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 30 ml Pineapple juice; 15 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Grenadine syrup; 4 drop Daiquiri bitters

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years

1 fl oz

Pineapple juice

1/2 fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

1/4 fl oz

Monin Grenadine Syrup

4 drop

Difford's Daiquiri Bitters

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Flamingo contains 210 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
15.7% alc./vol. (31.39° proof)
19 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe in Ted Saucier's 1951 book Bottoms Up where it's credited to The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, USA. The Flamingo Hotel & Casino was opened in 1946 by mobster Bugsy Siegel and his partners as the third hotel on the Strip, where it is now the last surviving casino to have opened before 1950.

FLAMINGO
Courtesy, The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
1 oz. Cuban rum
½ oz. pineapple juice
1 dash grenadine
Juice ½ lime
Mix ingredients in electric mixer with fine
Pour entire contents in saucer champagne and serve with short straws.

Ted Saucier, Bottoms Up, 1951

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Comments & Discussion

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Florian Ruf Premium Member 2y

I think, one can not get the pictured colour if one uses aged rum, but the cocktail is really very tasty.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 2y

I made it with Appleton 8yo, Eager pineapple juice and Monin grenadine. Photographed just last week. Sticks in my mind as I flaffed the bitters line across the top, much to Dan's amusement.

Jon Sjoberg 2y

The origin attributed, allegedly, to the reopening after renovation of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas in 1954. Reducing pineapple juice to 1 oz, increase lime to 3/4 oz and grenadine to 1/4 oz helps the overall balance IMHO. Garnish with a long thin dash of Peychauds Bitters across the foamy top. The recipe I have uses a good quality white rum. Actually very tasty and perfect for a warm afternoon by the pool, a favorite of the spousal unit!

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 2y

Many thanks, Jon. I've added history and will try your recipe and rephotograph to remove the existing star fruit garnish, which certainly doesn't belong.

C.A. Mat 3y

Delicious and very, very pineapple, as one would expect. The pineapple juice froths up to make a nice head and the overall drink goes down easy. Thanks for this one--it's a perfect hot afternoon on the deck kind of drink.

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