Hand Grenade
Ingredients
- 5⁄6 oz Tanqueray London Dry Gin
- 5⁄6 oz Bacardi Carta Blanca Superior White Rum
- 5⁄6 oz Tito's Vodka
- 1 1⁄4 oz Green melon liqueur
- 1 1⁄4 oz Pineapple juice
Method
Glassware:
Serve in a Collins glass
Prepare:
- Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
- Prepare garnish by scoring the skin of a whole lime with a citrus zester.
Method:
- SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
- STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.
Garnish:
- Garnish with whole lime with scored skin.
Nutrition:
One serving of Hand Grenade contains 266 calories
History:
This recipe is an interpretation of the notorious Hand Grenade cocktail served by the three Tropical Isle Bars and the Funky Pirate on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, USA.
Pam Fortner and Earl Bernhardt founded their Tropical Isle bar for the Louisiana World Exposition in 1984, and along with the bar came its melon-flavoured Hand Grenade signature cocktail. Marketed under the trademarked strapline "New Orleans Most Powerful Drink" and, since 1992, served in long plastic half-yard hand-grenade shaped vessels, this green melon flavoured proprietary cocktail is available as a pre-mix by mail order from tropicalisle.com. The recipe used to make this, and the cocktails served in the Tropical Isle bars, is a well-kept secret.
Beware, in the USA, the operators of Tropical Isle have trademarked "Hand Grenade", so preventing other establishments, not licensed by Tropical Isle, from selling cocktails of this name.
Review:
A blend of white spirits sweetened and melon flavoured by the addition of green-coloured melon liqueur.
