Jeffersons Crimson

To prepare the glass:

• 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• ice

Cocktail ingredients:

• 3/4 oz Southern Comfort
• 3/4 oz bourbon, Maker's Mark
• 3 oz pomegranate juice
• 1/2 oz pomegranate molasses
• 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice

Moisten the outer rim of a rocks glass with the 2 tbs of pomegranate molasses and then dip the rim into a small plate with the sugar to coat.

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice, add the remaining ingredients and shake well. Fill the rocks glass with ice and then strain the contents of the shaker over the ice into the glass.

Notes: You can look up simple recipes on making pomegranate molasses, but it's basically 4 parts pomegranate juice to 1/2 part sugar and some lemon juice (for 4 cups pomegranate juice, 2 tbs lemon juice).

Inspired by the recipe in Jefferson's Crimson from Food & Wine website, retrieved 2021, but no longer available at the same link. It had a note that Thomas Jefferson is credited as being one of the first people to grow pomegranates in the US, having planted a crop in Monticello in 1769, hence the inspiration for a bourbon-pomegranate drink.