The Hurricane you’ll enjoy!

Invented at the positively fantastic Pat O’Brien’s bar in New Orleans, this libation is an All-American born cocktail. As the story goes, the Hurricane was created due to a surplus of rum. You see, in the 1940s, rum was more readily available than whiskey or other liquors, so Pat O’Brien’s began focusing on the spirit, eventually concocting the Hurricane. To this day the O’Brien family owned bar continues to serve up this cocktail like it came from the tap. In fact it’s believed O’Brien’s sells more than half a million glasses each year through its New Orleans venues.

And so here’s how to whip up a Hurricane at home and sit through it sip by sip…by sip.

Ingredients
• 2 ounces light rum
• 2 ounces dark rum
• 1 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed
• 1 ounce orange juice, freshly squeezed
• 1/2 ounce passion fruit puree
• 1/2 ounce simple syrup
• 1 teaspoon grenadine
• Garnish: orange half-wheel
• Garnish: preserved cherry

Steps
Add the light and dark rums, lime and orange juices, passion fruit puree, simple syrup and grenadine into a shaker with ice and shake it until well-chilled.

Strain into a large Hurricane glass (or pint glass) over fresh ice.

Garnish with an orange wedge and a maraschino cherry.

Now sit down, relax and enjoy the feel of a New Orleans Pat O’Brien Hurricane. You can call your friends and tell them I know what it’s like to sit through a Hurricane. Cheers!