Dark 'n' Stormy
60 ml Dark rum, 100 ml Ginger beer, 10 ml Lime juice, 1 Lime wedge
Photo: Hurricane cocktail · All credits
Ingredients
- 60 ml Jigger One large side (50 ml) of a standard jigger, plus two teaspoons. Dark rum
- 30 ml Jigger One small side (25 ml) of a standard jigger, plus a teaspoon. Passion fruit purée
- 20 ml Spoons A tablespoon and a teaspoon. Lemon juice
- 15 ml Spoons A tablespoon. Grenadine
- 10 ml Spoons Two teaspoons. Simple syrup - Leave it out if your passion fruit is sweet
- 1 slice Orange slice (optional)
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What the jigger, the spoons and the jug hold, in millilitres and in fluid ounces, is on the measures reference.
Quick version
- Shake everything with ice and pour into a tall glass over fresh ice.
Method
- Shake the rum, passion fruit, lemon juice, grenadine and syrup with ice for 12 seconds.
- Pour into a hurricane glass over fresh ice, or over crushed ice if you want it colder still.
- Garnish with a slice of orange and, if you have one, a cherry.
Serve it
Hurricane
Pat O'Brien's in New Orleans invented this in the 1940s, when Scotch was hard to come by and bars were buying rum by the crate - so they mixed it with passion fruit and lemon, tipped it into a glass shaped like a lamp, and gave it away to sailors. It is a generous, ridiculous drink, and made at home with real fruit it is a great deal better than the neon versions served on Bourbon Street.
Getting it right
The one thing to get right is the passion fruit: syrup will do at a push, but purée - frozen or fresh - gives you the seeds, the perfume and the tartness that make this more than a rum punch. Watch the sweetness, too: between the grenadine, the syrup and the fruit there is a lot of sugar here, so taste before you add the last spoonful. And do use a big glass and plenty of ice, because this is a drink for a long evening.
Tasting notes
Tropical and tart, with passion fruit right at the front and a deep rum note underneath. It is sweet, it is strong, and it is very easy to drink faster than you meant to.
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