Jack Rose

Jack Rose

  • Type
    Cocktail
  • Primary alcohol by volume
    Brandy
  • Served
    Straight up
  • Standard garnish
    lemon zest
  • Standard drinkware
    Cocktail glass
  • Commonly used ingredients
    4 parts applejack
    1 part lemon or lime juice
    1/2 part grenadine
  • Preparation
    Traditionally shaken into a chilled glass, garnished, and served straight up.

A jack rose is a cocktail containing applejack, grenadine, and lemon or lime juice.

It was popular in the 1920s and 1930s, notably appearing in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 classic, The Sun Also Rises, in which Jake Barnes, the narrator, drinks a Jack Rose in the Crillon Paris hotel bar while awaiting the arrival of Lady Brett Ashley.

References
Jack Rose (cocktail)

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