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
✦ 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
✦ 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
✦ 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
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