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Hurricane

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Hurricane

New Orleans' Pat O'Brien's wartime two-rum and passion-fruit slammer, born of a 1940s rum oversupply, originally Demerara-heavy.

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Ingredients

  • fresh lemon juice (2 oz)
  • passion fruit syrup (1.5 oz)
  • light Puerto Rican rum (2 oz)
  • black-blended Demerara rum (2 oz)
  • orange slice (1)
  • maraschino cherry (1)

Instructions

  1. In a shaker combine fresh lemon juice, passion fruit syrup, light Puerto Rican rum, and black-blended Demerara rum.
  2. Shake hard with ice until well-chilled.
  3. Pour unstrained into a hurricane glass filled with crushed ice.
  4. Garnish with an orange slice and a maraschino cherry.

Sources

  1. "Hurricane (cocktail)." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_(cocktail) (accessed 2026-05-03), documents the 1940s Pat O'Brien's origin and the rum-oversupply / forced-purchase backstory tied to wartime whiskey rationing in the French Quarter. ↩
  2. Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum (2006), WWII rum-shipment chapters, provides the broader Caribbean rum / wartime distribution context (Demerara, Jamaican, Puerto Rican stock surplus) that underlies the New Orleans rum glut. ↩
  3. "The Original Hurricane Recipe." Moody Mixologist. https://www.moodymixologist.com/blog/the-original-hurricane-recipe (accessed 2026-05-03), published reconstruction of the original three-ingredient Pat O'Brien's spec and the source for this file's measurement bill, with notes on the modern Pat O'Brien's pre-batched juice version that diverged from it. ↩