Tired of the staid summer standby? These refreshing new cocktails add some bold twists to the classic après-tennis drink.
Emma Frost (Pictured)
A fave at
Philly's Franklin
Mortgage & Investment Co., this cocktail's scene-stealing component
is a grapefruit peel wound inside the glass.
Ingredients
2 oz Plymouth gin
1 oz Cocchi
Americano
3/4 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 oz grapefruit syrup (let
the rind of one grapefruit sit for a few hours or overnight in two cups
of simple syrup)
1/4 oz Crème de Violette
Grapefruit peel
Recipe
Twirl a long grapefruit peel inside a
Collins glass while adding ice until you've reached the top. Combine all
ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into the
Collins glass and top with club soda. (Note: If you're using nice 1-inch x 1-inch
ice cubes, you can alternately loop the grapefruit peel in between each
cube in an S-shaped pattern.)
South Side Fizz
Conceived at the
Varnish in Los Angeles, the South Side Fizz is a tall, bubbly,
hot-weather antidote with a bracingly cool menthol finish.
Ingredients
2 oz gin
1 oz fresh lime juice
3/4 oz simple syrup (one part sugar to one part water)
5
mint leaves
Recipe
Muddle mint leaves in the bottom of a cocktail shaker.
Add the rest of the ingredients and lightly shake with a small cube of
ice. Strain over block ice in a Collins glass and top with club
soda.
Tallulah Gosh
This blush, fizzy drink from
Brooklyn's Dram achieves a summery,
just-plucked sweetness.
Ingredients 1 1/2 oz Beefeater gin
1/2 oz
fresh lemon juice
1/2 oz raspberry syrup
1/2 oz Dolin Blanc
vermouth
1/4 oz pineapple juice
Recipe
Combine all ingredients in a
cocktail shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Strain over fresh ice in a Collins
glass and top with club soda.
Expense Account #2
The New Orleans bar
Cure
uses orange-blossom water to create a drink that's sweet and herbal;
poured over pebble ice, it's like a slushie for grown-ups.
Ingredients
1 1/2 oz Plymouth gin 1 oz fresh lime
juice 1/2 oz Becherovka 1/2 oz honey syrup (one part honey to one
part water)
1/2 oz Pernod Anise
10 drops orange-blossom
water
Absinthe
Recipe
Build all ingredients in a Collins glass.
Add cracked ice, then add 1 1/2 oz of club soda. Stir 30 revolutions in
the glass and spray the top of the drink with absinthe.
—Christopher Ross (@cgallagherross), assistant editor at Details
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