Purple rain

Hannah Guinness

Published: September 22, 2022 at 12:50 PM

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Serves 1

Easy

Prep: 2 mins

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Combine blue curaçao with grenadine to create the unusual colour of this cocktail – it's a simple but eye-catching drink you can make with just five ingredients from your home bar

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Try our purple rain cocktail recipe, then check out our blue lagoon cocktail, tequila sunrise, screwdriver and more cocktail recipes and retro cocktails. Next discover our Dry gin martini or Autumn cocktails

Our drinks expert Hannah Guinness shares her at-home bar tips to help you take your purple rain to the next level.

What is a purple rain?

Fruity, long and colourful, the purple rain gets its distinctive hue from mixing together blue curaçao and grenadine.

Purple rain ingredients

Make sure you invest in the best ingredients, particularly a good-quality lemonade and a decent grenadine. For the latter, it's easy (and often cheaper) to make your own. Try our grenadine recipe here.

Purple rain bar hacks and garnishes

The recipe calls for a lot of grenadine but it's essential for that all-important purple colour. If that makes the drink a little sweet for your taste, try adding more lime juice.

Purple rain recipe

Ingredients

Nutrition

25ml vodka
1 tbsp blue curaçao
25ml lime juice
75ml grenadine
lemonade

to top up
lime wedge

to garnish

Nutrition: Per serving

kcal330
fat0g
saturates0g
carbs60.1g
sugars44.9g
fibre0g
protein0.1g
salt0g

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Method

step 1

Pour the vodka, curaçao, lime juice and grenadine into a highball glass filled with ice and gently stir.
step 2

Top up with lemonade and garnish with a lime wedge. (If it’s not purple enough, try halving the amount of curaçao, or increase the grenadine by another 25ml.)

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Authors

Hannah GuinnessSenior sub editor and drinks writer

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