Name: President
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Light white rum; 30 ml Orange juice; 7.5 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Grenadine syrup

President
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
1 oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

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Dry/sour

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Review:

Delicately fruity sweet and sour.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

PRESIDENT COCKTAIL.
2 Dashes Grenadine
The Juice of ¼ Orange.
1 Glass Bacardi Rum.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Nutrition:

One serving of President contains 162 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
16.81% alc./vol. (16.81° proof)
17.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Jere Eskelinen

26th March at 17:19

Slightly too sweet to my taste, maybe less grenadine and orange juice?

G. M. Genovese

9th March at 01:04

Unique taste. I like others I would think will require more context to the history of this drink posted here before we venture elsewhere to learn more. President of what and where?

Avery Garnett

20th October 2023 at 18:09

Even with Plantation 3 star (a more exciting lightly aged rum than, for example, Bacardi) it's...rum and orange juice. Yeah, there's not much more to add other than this is indeed rum, orange juice, and a bit of red fruit.

C.A. Mat

22nd May 2023 at 02:34

Tried it exactly as written and it was nice, fruity without being sour (you can't really detect the lemon juice at all). Rum plus fruit juice without going a tropical direction. I suspect it would indeed be even better with half gold rum.