GRAPEFRUIT COCKTAIL BOURBON HOW TO

Matching that is Amaro Meletti, among the most floral of the Italian amari, with a perfumed and grapefruit-like bitterness and a juicy quality all its own. To start, we grabbed Cointreau-the classic French triple-sec, easily one of the best orange liqueurs ever made-and deployed it here in significant quantity, which gives the drink the irrepressible fresh juiciness we sought. This drink is essentially what happens when you start with a vibe, and work backward: We wanted to make the juiciest cocktail we possibly could and set out to see how far bourbon’s natural affinity for orange and grapefruit could get us there.īeing “juicy” in this case isn’t just a function of adding juice, which can be sweet and flabby and lack precision, but instead leaning into the inherent character of a couple of our favorite liqueurs. This space is usually reserved for classics new and old, and plenty of those would work here-the Whiskey Smash, the Kentucky Buck, the New York Sour and on and on-but this original cocktail, invented at San Diego cocktail bar The Lion’s Share a few summers ago, is one of my favorites I’ve ever made. We humbly submit, by way of answer, the Cardboard Plane.

GRAPEFRUIT COCKTAIL BOURBON HOW TO

How to Make a Growing Old, the Rule-Breaking Cocktail That Negroni Fans Will Love One of America's Best Craft Distillers Just Dropped a New Grain-to-Glass Barrel Strength Bourbon Old Forester Just Dropped a New Limited Edition Bottled in Bond Bourbon, and It's Stellar You don’t want a glass of juice, but you’d love the overall effect to be juicy. The temperature forbids sweetness, but you want it refreshing and summery. And if you’re anything like me, you are often met with a set of conflicting instincts: It’s too hot for whiskey, but you kinda want whiskey.

Picture yourself in the yard grilling meat, the direct sun still uncomfortable in the late afternoon, on one of those days when you wonder if it’s an acceptable hour to start drinking and then decide you don’t care either way. The dog days of summer practically compels sunshine cocktails.

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