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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...
Chris Dimal
22nd January 2024 at 07:04
Definitely concur with the review, especially the part in the parentheses, as the grenadine I made this time was with pomegranate molasses added to it, sadly muddying the colour too. Nonetheless, I do feel that my previous grenadine without the molasses will still be almost as good with a nicer colour.
9th January at 12:50
Very interesting replies below to you comment. I found Jeffrey Morgenthaler's 2009 recipe online (though now he doubles up on sugar so 2:1). Anyway, I dont have the sort of juicer needed and I tried using a carton of fresh juice but in my view, fresh pomegranate juice tastes of very little (Morgenthaler do add some pomegranate molasses...). Until now, I have been using the very good House Grenadine recipe from the Cocktail Codex book by Alex Day, Nick Fauchald and David Kaplan but replacing the cartoned juice with 100 % pomegranate concentrate without sugar (bought in a local Turkish grocery store), and mix it - 60 % vol. part water 40 % vol. part concentrate. The Cocktail Codex recipe: 250 g juice, 0,15 g pure orange blossom olie (the key ingredient in orange blossom water) which I lower to 0,12 g, 1,85 g powdered malic acid, 1,25 g powered citric acid and 250 g unbleached cane sugar. In my first years of being a cocktail enthusiast, I just used cranberry concentrate being commonly available here in Denmark, and it worked very well (just lacking a bit of orange taste). I would never use the mainstream, artificial grenadine - it is like strawberry ice creme without strawberry.
12th January at 19:03
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.
12th March 2024 at 23:49
Interesting as I used home made syrup with pomegranate syrup / molasses (Jeffrey Morgenthaler recipe) and still had a very nice pink colour. I used fresh squeezed pomegranate so I don't know if that made a difference.
28th March 2024 at 13:58
You're absolutely right. Made this drink again, this time with fresh pomegranate juice immediately going into the grenadine itself and the colour is truly vibrant. Everyone, please use Jeffrey Morgenthaler's recipe with FRESH pomegranate juice (not even juiced and then bottled in a store). The colour and flavour is truly delectable.