Name: Honolulu
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 45 ml Pineapple juice; 15 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 7.5 ml Grenadine syrup; 1&frasl;4 barspoon Xanthan gum (E415)

Honolulu
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Pineapple juice
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
¹⁄₄ barspoon	Xanthan gum (E415)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of pineapple wedge and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
DRY BLEND (without ice) first 5 ingredients on slow setting and then gradually add Xanthan gum while continuing to blend.
Add 7oz scoop of crushed ice and BLEND some more.
POUR into chilled glass.
Garnish with pineapple wedge on rim skewered with maraschino cherry.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A fruity frozen rum-laced sour. Perfect for a hot afternoon in Honolulu.

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Variant:

Honolulu No. 1
Honolulu No. 2
Honolulu Juicer

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Victor Bergeron's 1972 Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide (revised edition) with his TV logo alongside the recipe denoting that this is one of Trader Vic's own creations, confirmed by his writing, "This is one of the first drinks that we ever originated."

HONOLULU
½ slice pineapple
½ once lemon juice
1 dash rock candy syrup
1 dash grenadine
1½ ounces light Puerto Rican rum
Victor Bergeron, 1972

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Kieran McCormack

28th May at 04:24

Used Flor de Cana 4, fresh pineapple juice, 0.5 oz of homemade grenadine to replace the rich simple. Simple and delicious. Large pineapple flavour with body behind it. Would up the rum later on or try an aged version to get that extra flavour.

Joseph Murray

13th June 2023 at 21:24

How much crushed ice is recommended?

Chris Dimal

21st February 2023 at 12:11

It's exactly what the review says. My only issue is that the drink has turned into a foam on top and a very liquid bottom. Any insight?

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