Grapefruit Collins

Sam Kiley, Cane & Table | New Orleans

Hailing from proto-tiki bar Cane & Table, Sam Kiley gives this rum highball a tropical twist. “A float of pomegranate juice adds flavor, acidity and an ombre that goes beautifully with the pink soda,” she explains, yielding a highball that’s “fun, flirty and will transport you to an island state of being.”

Ingredients
  • 1 ounce Hamilton Jamaican Pot Still Gold rum
  • 1 ounce Hamilton Jamaican Pot Still Gold rum
  • 1/2 ounce Marie Brizard Anisette liqueur
  • 1/2 ounce Marie Brizard Anisette liqueur
  • 1/4 ounce Chinola passion fruit liqueur
  • 1/4 ounce Chinola passion fruit liqueur
  • 1/4 ounce fresh-squeezed lime juice
  • 1/4 ounce fresh-squeezed lime juice
  • 2 to 2 1/2 ounces Fever-Tree Sparkling Pink Grapefruit
  • 2 to 2 1/2 ounces Fever-Tree Sparkling Pink Grapefruit
  • 1/4 ounce pomegranate juice
  • 1/4 ounce pomegranate juice

Garnish: dehydrated lemon wheel and fresh fennel frond

Directions
  1. Add the first four ingredients to a Collins glass half-filled with crushed ice.
  2. Scoop in more crushed ice, to fill the glass.
  3. Top up with grapefruit soda.
  4. Float pomegranate juice on top by pouring it slowly over the rounded back of a spoon.
  5. Garnish with a dehydrated lemon wheel and a fennel frond. Serve with two straws. “Give your fennel frond a little slap against your wrist to enhance the lovely aroma,” Kiley advises, and position the straws as close as possible to the garnishes so the aromas are unmissable.

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