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Grapefruit Juice cocktails

Tart, aromatic, and just bitter enough to keep things honest, grapefruit juice cuts through sweetness and adds a sun-bleached brightness — essential to the Paloma and the Hemingway Special alike.

4 classic recipes from our canon that use grapefruit juice — Grapefruit Juice sits in our juices shelf.

Paloma cocktail

Paloma

✦ Proven classicEasyHighball

Tequila, grapefruit and lime over soda — Mexico's everyday drink, lighter than a Margarita.


Ingredients

  • 50 ml blanco tequila
  • 60 ml grapefruit juice
  • 15 ml lime juice
  • to top club soda

Zombie cocktail

Zombie

✦ Proven classicChallengingHighball

Three rums, falernum and citrus with a hidden kick — the most notorious tiki drink of them all.


Ingredients

  • 45 ml dark rum
  • 45 ml white rum
  • 30 ml spiced rum
  • 20 ml lime juice
  • 15 ml falernum
  • 10 ml grapefruit juice
  • 5 ml cinnamon syrup
  • 5 ml grenadine
  • 1 dash angostura bitters
  • 6 drops absinthe

Hemingway Special cocktail

Hemingway Special

✦ Proven classicEasyCoupe

A dry, grapefruit-and-maraschino daiquiri — supposedly the author's preferred, sugarless version.


Ingredients

  • 60 ml white rum
  • 40 ml grapefruit juice
  • 15 ml maraschino liqueur
  • 15 ml lime juice

Sea Breeze cocktail

Sea Breeze

✦ Proven classicEasyHighball

Vodka with cranberry and grapefruit — tart, pink and summery.


Ingredients

  • 40 ml vodka
  • 120 ml cranberry juice
  • 30 ml grapefruit juice

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