How to make ...
Perfumed Fizz
This delicious house creation, consists of dry vodka, nutty, floral apricot liqueur, lemon juice, pink grapefruit juice and soda.
Ingredients
25ml Vodka
20ml Apricot Liqueur
25ml Pink Grapefruit Juice
15ml Lemon Juice
Splash of Soda Water
Lemon Wedge to Garnish
Times:
Prep: 2 Minutes
Make: 30 Seconds
Total: 2 Minutes and 30 Seconds
Calories:
92 calories
Allergens:
No common allergens to be found, although, since every body is different, we advise you check out this recipe's ingredients list just to be sure!
Servings:
Serves 1
Method
Take your highball glass and, using your jigger to measure, add the vodka, apricot liqueur and pink grapefruit juice to the glass.
Using your Mexican elbow and a jigger to measure, squeeze 15ml of lemon juice and add it to the glass then fill the glass ⅔ with cubed ice.
Holding your bar spoon lightly between your thumb and forefinger, gently stir the cocktail for a few seconds to combine the ingredients and incorporate the ice.
Fill your glass to the top with more crushed ice before topping your cocktail up with the soda water.
Garnish with a lemon wedge.
Serve and enjoy!
Equipment
Jigger/Measure
Bar Spoon
Mexican Elbow
Cubed Ice
History
This drink was created by Mixology Events’ head bartender and events manager, Jake Rogers for a bar he worked at in his hometown of Bristol:
“I created this drink when I was working at a bar in Bristol called The Milk Thistle, it actually just got voted 16th in the UK’s top 50 bars. I was working as head bartender there at the time. Obviously vodka is a really versatile spirit but it can be hard to showcase because of its neutral flavour, but when complemented with the right fruit ingredients it can really sing, the grapefruit really accentuated the dryness of the vodka and it turned out a real summer-sipper with a subtle perfumey flavour.”
Pink grapefruit is an essential ingredient to this cocktail and gives it its distinctive citrus-floral bitterness. Grapefruits are not a naturally occurring fruit but an accidental hybrid of two other citrus fruits, the Jamaican sweet orange (itself an ancient hybrid of asian origin) and the Indonesian pomelo. It’s thought the hybrid came about in Barbados where Pomelo seeds were introduced from Asia by a British naval officer named Captain Shaddock. When it was first discovered the grapefruit was known as ‘the forbidden fruit.’
