Sloppy Joe
INGREDIENTS
- ½ oz rum
- ½ oz dry vermouth
- 1 oz lime juice (or the juice of 1 lime)
- ¼ oz orange curaçao
- ¼ oz granadine
INSTRUCTIONS
Shake ingredients with ice and serve in a chilled cocktail glass
VIDEO HOW-TO
NOTES
There are many variations of the original Sloppy Joe cocktail, but ours is based on the original recipe from the 1940 Sloppy Joes Cocktail Manual.
A SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Mr. Jose Abeal, otherwise popularly known as 'Sloppy Joe's'' originally came to Cuba from Spain in 1904 and went to work on his first job in Ha- vana, as a bartender in a cafe located at the en- trance to Havana's Chinatown on Galiano and Zan- ja streets. He stayed on this first job three years and then left for New Orleans. He continued work- ing in this city as a bartender till 1912, at which time he moved to Miami Florida, working there for six years at different bars.
In 1918 he returned to Havana and worked also as a bartender at the "Greasy Spoon'' cafe, but six months later found him in business for himself in a small unimportant combination grocery store and bar at the same corner now occupied by the famous Sloppy Joe's Bar.
While operating this small grocery store and before he had been able to rebuild the site, he was visited by several of his old friends from the States and one of them noticing exclaimed, "Why Joe, this place is certainly sloppy! Look at the filthy water running from under the counter!''
From then on the name "Sloppy Joe'' stuck to Jose Abeal as part of his own life and was destined to make him and his business famous and internationally known.
