After trying a few versions, we've decided this works best for us: 1 1/2 Rye, 1 Vermouth Blanc, 3/4 Lemon Juice, 1/2 Grenadine, 1 dash Orange Bitters. We find it perfectly balanced. Cheers!

Revisiting. Stuck with 1/4 oz pomegranate liqueur instead of grenadine and sugar syrup but addressed the tartness from 1/3 oz lemon juice by using a mix of half dry vermouth and half bianco. This worked quite well and is my personal version of the drink going forward. Kudos to the unknown bartender at Maxim's who created this. Incidently, a real Prohibition-era scofflaw (played by James Cagney on the silver screen) would have drunk this out of an old-fashioned glass, not a coupe!

This time omitted the sugar syrup. We use a homemade grenadine which is also not as sweet. Made the cocktail a little dry, but very, very smooth.

Amazing rye cocktail. I'll omit the sugar syrup the next time though.

Used Rough Rider "The Big Stick" cask strength rye (121 proof) and replaced the grenadine + sugar syrup by 1/4 oz Drillaud Pomegranate Liqueur, which I like in place of grenadine. Added 1 dash Peychaud's but no saline (hey, we weren't putting it in our EYES). A bit tart; might increase the pomegranate liqueur to 1/3 or 1/2 oz. This belongs in the "Big Easy" section of the drink book.

Used around 15 ml lemon juice and 10 ml grenadine.
Superb drink, I felt classy just by sipping on it :)

The Scofflaw has been one of my favorite drinks since I first tried one 10 years ago. This is actually a very good recipe here; I opted for 10 ml grenadine instead of a sugar split. My recipe also uses bonded rye, but I employ an 8:4:3:2 ratio. Much respect to this version though... Maybe my memory is hazy, but the bar in which I worked where I first tried this used a footed rocks glass (which I still use at home for it), but I swear it also had egg white in it. Love it like that too.

Left out the syrup, bumped the rye, used Roses Grenadine. It’s quite refreshing and more savory than I expected, perhaps because of the pinch of salt and barreled bitters.

Rye was replaced by boubon, Creol-style bitters - by Angostura. And no sugar. Well, it's very nice!

Liked this very much. Did take Jill's tip and used all grenadine instead of the sugar syrup. Since this drink is about the pomegranate flavour, we used some pomegranate seeds as the garnish.

We really enjoyed this! We did tweak it a bit. We did 2 oz. bourbon to 1 oz. dry vermouth, and 1 tsp. of grenadine w/ no simple. Everything else the same. Really nice! Will definitely make again.

Had to try this because of the name alone! Next time I will double (or triple) the sugar in my pomegranate juice to make this a tad less tart. Nice either way.

Great name, Scofflaw. Looked it up at dictionary.com: “US informal: a person who habitually flouts or violates the law, esp one who fails to pay debts or answer summonses. First recorded in 1920–25.” No doubt as a result of the competition referred above. Nice!

Try to substitute grenadine with a premix made of pomegranates juice and granulate sugar (1:1).
Unbelievable step ahead.

Produces a lovely colour and is very attractive in the glass. A pleasant enough mix of flavours and nicely balanced, but perhaps a bit old-fashioned for many of today's drinkers—or maybe I just need better grenadine.