Hemingway Cocktail

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 4 servings
  • Total: 5 min
  • Prep: 5 min
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Ingredients

3 ruby red grapefruit, plus 4 grapefruit slices

6 ounces vodka

Simple syrup, recipe follows

Sugar

Simple Syrup:

1 cup water

1 cup sugar

Directions

  1. Juice the grapefruits and divide the juice among 4 glasses. Add 1 1/2 ounces of vodka to each glass. Add desired amount of simple syrup to sweeten the drink. Stir well.
  2. Dip the grapefruit slices in sugar, to coat. Place 1 sugar dipped grapefruit slice on the rim of each glass.

Simple Syrup:

  1. Combine the water and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring the water just to a boil and boil until the sugar dissolves, but the mixture does not get any color. Remove from the heat and let cool. Store in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.

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SouthernFried22

This recipe isn't in the slightest the Hemingway cocktail. The correct Hemingway cocktail is exactly as listed in Preiss's comment except he forgot 1.5 oz of white rum. Great presentation when served with a brandied cherry. <br /> <br />Exact recipe as follows: <br /> <br />1.5 oz white rum <br />1/2 oz grapefruit juice (fresh is best <br />3/4 oz lime (fresh <br />3/4 oz simple syrup <br /> <br />"Ernest Hemingway needed a bathroom. <br />Or so the story goes. The novelist had stopped into Havana’s El Floridita bar, not far from the hotel where he lived during much of the 1930s. On his way out, he noticed the bartender setting up Daiquiris. Never one to walk past a drink, Hemingway took a sip. Not bad, he said, but he preferred them with no sugar and double the rum. The bartender made one as specified, and then named the drink after him." <br /> <br />

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