This drink's sweet-sour balance and degree of pink hue is relative to how generous you are with the grenadine.
(When made with homemade fresh pomegranate...
Thanks for the reply Morten. Interesting comment about the pomegranate juice. Could be pomegranate quality. I find it to have a distinct fruity, savoury and bitter taste. I do use pomegranate molasses as well. I since also found out that the colour of your grenadine is made or broken by the arils themselves. If they give out a light colour, you'll get a bad appearance, whereas if they have a strong magenta colour, I get a beautiful red once I add the molasses. Eitherway I still stand by juice + molasses wherever possible.