Deep coral red in a tall, curvy glass, smelling of passion fruit and orange. It tastes like a holiday, but two measures of rum make it a drink to take slowly.
1½ oz
white rume.g. Bacardi · Havana Club · Plantation · Don Q · Flor de Caña
1½ oz
dark rume.g. Gosling's · Myers's · Captain Morgan · Bacardi · Kraken
1 oz
passion fruit purée or syrup
1 oz
lime juice
1 oz
orange juice
¼ oz
grenadine
Garnish: Orange slice and cherry · Ice: Ice cubes
Hurricane
Fruity and tangy with passion fruit, lime and orange over a rich rum base. Sweet, bright and strong.
The Hurricane is inseparable from Pat O'Brien's, the bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans. According to the bar's own account, it was created there in the 1940s, when whiskey was scarce and distributors made bars take large amounts of rum in order to get other spirits. To use up the rum, the bar mixed it with passion fruit and other juices and served it in glasses shaped like hurricane lamps, which gave the drink its name.
The Hurricane became a symbol of New Orleans nightlife and Mardi Gras. Its reputation suffered from bright red premixes, but made with fresh juice and real passion fruit it is a well-balanced tropical sour.
At Pat O'Brien's bar in New Orleans in the 1940s, according to the bar's own history.
It was served in glasses shaped like hurricane lamps, which gave both the glass and the drink their name.
With 90 ml of rum it is a strong drink, roughly equal to two standard cocktails.
The perfect sound
A stormy, fruity party on Bourbon Street.
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