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Old Salt

Mostly grapefruit juice, and that’s the point. Nothing gets shaken – you build it, pour it, and let the salt do the talking. The one to make when it’s hot and you’re thirsty.

Glass · Highball  /  Garnish · salted grapefruit wedge
Recipe by Zachary Pease, Charleston SC, by way of Punch.
Old Salt – pale pink grapefruit highball in a fluted highball glass with an oversized salted grapefruit wedge, on a wood table
What you need
Grapefruit juice
then frothed4 oz
Tequila or gin1½ oz
Simple syrup½ oz
Fresh lime juice½ oz
Saline solution2 dashes
Saline solution
1 tablespoon salt into 100 ml water. Stir or shake until it disappears. Keeps forever; you’ll start using it in everything.
How it goes
1Prep the garnish first: cut an oversized grapefruit wedge – bigger than feels reasonable – and salt it heavily. Set it aside.
2Either run the grapefruit through a Breville juicer, rind removed first – it comes out frothy – or juice it by hand and froth it yourself, with a handheld frother or a quick blitz in the blender.
3Combine everything into a shaker (or cup). Do not shake.
4Pour straight over ice into a Highball glass.
5Perch the salted wedge on top.
← All Bottle Shop recipes

Old Salt

Mostly grapefruit juice, and that’s the point. Nothing gets shaken – you build it, pour it, and let the salt do the talking. The one to make when it’s hot and you’re thirsty.

Glass · Highball  /  Garnish · salted grapefruit wedge
Recipe by Zachary Pease, Charleston SC, by way of Punch.
Old Salt – pale pink grapefruit highball in a fluted highball glass with an oversized salted grapefruit wedge, on a wood table
What you need
Grapefruit juice
then frothed4 oz
Tequila or gin1½ oz
Simple syrup½ oz
Fresh lime juice½ oz
Saline solution2 dashes
Saline solution
1 tablespoon salt into 100 ml water. Stir or shake until it disappears. Keeps forever; you’ll start using it in everything.
How it goes
1Prep the garnish first: cut an oversized grapefruit wedge – bigger than feels reasonable – and salt it heavily. Set it aside.
2Either run the grapefruit through a Breville juicer, rind removed first – it comes out frothy – or juice it by hand and froth it yourself, with a handheld frother or a quick blitz in the blender.
3Combine everything into a shaker (or cup). Do not shake.
4Pour straight over ice into a Highball glass.
5Perch the salted wedge on top.