# Prince of Wales (1887)

The 1887 rye branch crushes pineapple into a lightly sweetened whiskey cocktail and crowns it with Champagne.

Strength: 26% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 1 teaspoon [Powdered sugar](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/powdered-sugar.md)
- 1 dash [Angostura bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/angostura-bitters.md)
- 3 ml [Water](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/water.md)
- 45 ml [Rye whiskey](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/rye-whiskey.md)
- 2 ml [Luxardo Maraschino](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/luxardo-maraschino.md)
- 1 piece [Pineapple](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/pineapple.md) — Use one small square of ripe pineapple.
- 30 ml [Champagne](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/champagne.md) — Use well-chilled Champagne.

## Glassware

Cocktail glass

## Garnish

- Lemon twist — Express the peel oils over the drink and retain the twist.

## Method

1. Stir the sugar, bitters, and water in a mixing glass until the sugar dissolves.
2. Add the rye, maraschino, and pineapple, then fill the glass two-thirds with crushed ice.
3. Shake firmly to chill the drink and crush the pineapple.
4. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and add the Champagne without stirring.

## Related drinks

- [Improved Whiskey Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/improved-whiskey-cocktail.md): Rye is improved in the nineteenth-century sense with tiny measures of maraschino, sugar, absinthe, and bitters, preserving the whiskey's shape while connecting the Old Fashioned to the Sazerac.
- [Seelbach](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/seelbach.md): Bourbon, orange liqueur, and ten dashes of bitters meet Champagne in Adam Seger's genuinely modern 1995 sparkling cocktail.
- [Brooklyn](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/brooklyn.md): A dry, rye-led Manhattan relative accented with maraschino and the bitter orange of Amer Picon.
- [Russian Spring Punch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/russian-spring-punch.md): Cassis and lemon give vodka a vivid blackcurrant-sour core before dry sparkling wine stretches it into a cold, dangerous party drink.
- [French 75](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/french-75.md): A sparkling gin sour lengthened with Champagne.
- [Preakness](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/preakness.md): A tiny measure of Bénédictine seasons a rye Manhattan with honeyed herbs and spice in the 1936 structure associated with Baltimore's first Preakness Ball.
- [Monte Carlo](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/monte-carlo.md): Rye, Bénédictine, and Angostura make an Old Fashioned branch in which the liqueur supplies every trace of sweetness as well as a deep herbal finish.
- [Red Hook](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/red-hook.md): A dry, bittersweet Brooklyn variation blending rye with Punt e Mes and nutty maraschino.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/prince-of-wales-1887
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/prince-of-wales-1887-00645a7c.webp
- Recipe source: https://www.spiritsanddistilling.com/dictionary/acref-9780199311132-e-391