Solstice Grapefruit Basil Smash
Start your cocktail making journey with a delicious Solstice Grapefruit Basil Smash! Loaded with fresh citrus & green basil, floral gin is the highlight of this perfect at-home cocktail!
Servings: 1 cocktail
Ingredients
- 2 ounces freshly squeezed pink grapefruit juice
- 1 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2 ounces of Hendrick’s Midsummer Solstice Gin
- 1.5 ounces simple syrup homemade or storebought
- 1 generous handful fresh green basil
- ice
- Garnish of pink grapefruit rounds grapefruit zest, and edible flowers.
Instructions
- In the cup of a cocktail shaker, add the lemon juice.
- Gently “smack” the fresh basil on your palm and add to the shaker cup.
- Taking your muddler, gentle twist into the basil, releasing the essence.
- Next, add the pink grapefruit juice, simple syrup, and Hendrick’s Midsummer Solstice Gin.
- Add a handful of ice, then close up the shaker.
- Briskly shake your cocktail for 30 seconds, or until the shaker becomes nice and frosted. Put aside.
- Fill a Double Old Fashioned glass with ice, and using either a strainer or a Cobbler-Shaker lid, strain the drink into the glass.
- Garnish with your grapefruit or flowers, and enjoy!