JACK ROSE
The Jack Rose: The Late 1890s Applejack Cocktail That Became a Classic
A bartender named Frank Haas was famous for making Jack Roses at the bar owned by Fred Eberlin, as reported in a New York Press article from 1899 Americanprohibitionmuseum. Frank Haas, veteran bartender at Eberlin's on Wall Street, is the most promising candidate for the drink's inventor, with a reporter in 1899 writing about drinking a Jack Rose with Frank Haas at Eberlin's Maine Spirits.
The first known Jack Rose recipe appears in Jacob Abraham Grohusko's 1908 Jack's Manual Difford's Guide. Early recipes featured applejack brandy, raspberry, and lemon juice, but within a decade, the ingredients were replaced with grenadine and lime Americanprohibitionmuseum. The most likely explanation of the name is that it is a simple portmanteau—made with applejack and rose colored from grenadine Wikipedia.
The drink was mentioned in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises," where Jake Barnes orders a Jack Rose at the Hôtel de Crillon bar in Paris Parched Around the World. It was featured as one of the "six basic drinks" by David A. Embury in 1948's The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks Americanprohibitionmuseum.
RECIPE:
2 oz applejack or apple brandy
¾ oz fresh lemon or lime juice
½ oz grenadine
Method:
Add applejack, citrus juice, and grenadine to shaker with ice
Shake well until chilled
Strain into chilled coupe glass
Garnish with lemon twist (optional)