Rum Runner Shot
A Florida Keys cocktail in shot form — rum, tropical fruit liqueur, and grenadine named for the Prohibition-era smugglers who ran Caribbean rum into the US by boat.
- 1½ ozwhite rum
- ½ ozfresh lime juice(freshly squeezed)
- ¼ ozgrenadine
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The Rum Runner cocktail is most commonly associated with the Florida Keys area, where the Holiday Isle Resort and Marina in Islamorada claims to have created the original tropical drink in the 1950s to use up surplus stock of rum and liqueurs. The name itself references the rum runners — bootleggers who transported illegal alcohol by sea during the Prohibition era of 1920-1933, when Caribbean rum was smuggled into the United States from the Bahamas and Cuba. Rum running was a lucrative and dangerous enterprise that shaped the economies of coastal Florida and the Gulf Coast. The Rum Runner Shot condenses the full-size cocktail's tropical blend of rum, banana and blackberry liqueurs, pineapple juice, and grenadine into a concentrated shooter format — a tribute to the adventurous, free-wheeling spirit of Florida's rum-running era.
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