![]() My favorite drinks historian David Wondrich has a great story about Jack Rose himself, which is worth the read. There are many stories about who invented the Jack Rose. Other variations using different Apple brandies like Calvados are highly encouraged as well. I suppose you could do half one and half the other as well. I’ve made this drink using both Lemon and Lime juice. Both are fun to make and you beat Kraft Foods at their own game. Heat them in a sauce pan until the sugar dissolves or simply put it in a sealable jar and shake the shit out of it. Take one bottle of POM and add an equal amount of sugar. A classic cocktail ingredient, “real” Grenadine is equal parts Pomegranite juice and sugar. This is High Fructose Corn Syrup, Red Food Coloring and fake fruit flavor. make several different apple spirits and those that I’ve had are each delicious in their own right. Though the Applejack I used in making the Jack Rose pictured isn’t the company’s finest, The distillery is America’s oldest. They used to do make it by setting out casks of cider in the winter and letting it freeze. The alcohol doesn’t freeze, so what you get is a concentrated cider. It wasn’t until prohibition that eating apples became a part of the American diet as the apple growers needed a new use for their crop.Īpplejack is made by fermenting apple juice until you get cider, then freezing it and scraping off the ice. Apple wine, cider and applejack were consumed in place of water as they were considered nutritional and medicinal.Apple orchards were planted as early as the Pilgrims and George Washington was heavily involved in it’s trade. A main source of alcohol in the colonies, apple spirits were consumed in large quantities. The apple orchards that Johnny Appleseed planted weren’t for eating. It contains America’s oldest spirit, fresh juice, and a homemade ingredient that Industrialization unnecessarily industrialized.Īnyone whose read or seen Michael Pollan’s the Botany of Desire knows the story of the apple and it’s impact on colonial America. ![]() Bright, fruity and really easy to drink while still being a geeky cocktail. At the very least, surrounded by the black and white marble bar and leather stools, one can drink one, channel some Lost Generation disaffection, and wait for one’s own Lady Brett Ashley to arrive.I love this cocktail. That, of course, was before The Gibson and many other serious cocktail bars had opened – and now there is even a new spot coming to Adams Morgan called Jack Rose – so perhaps we are experiencing a real come-back for this early-twentieth-centrury favorite. Currently on the upstairs menu at The Gibson, we among a fair bit of company in ordering the classic American drink.Īccording to The Washington Post, there was a time back in 2003 when two other men got the same idea Kirk had and had real difficulty seeking out one worth drinking in the District. With no less a modern proponent of the drink than the completely adorable Rachel Maddow, though, who am I to argue? Comprised of applejack, grenadine, and, in this case, lime, the cocktail is quaffable and apparently crowd-pleasing. The bright pink and lollipop sweet Jack Rose is no exception. However, the famously masculine author’s cocktail choices – daiquiris, champagne cocktails, etc – can tend toward what would be considered “girly” by today’s standards. Citrusy things when in Havana or the Keys. ![]() While, in general, I might be a bit more of a Fitzgerald, I can certainly get behind most of Papa Hemingway’s famous drinking preferences. When I asked him what I should drink for the column this week (after a spate of fairly unremarkable imbibition) he had a clear answer: a Jack Rose at The Gibson. In the 1926 novel, the narrator sips one in a Parisian boîte and the drink has benefitted from that bit of product placement ever since. My friend Kirk (pictured above) has been reading Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises specifically, which got him thinking about the Jack Rose cocktail. It’s time for Friday Happy Hour, highlighting a drink we’ve recently enjoyed, every Friday at 4pm! Please share your favorites as well. ![]()
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