Fresh Tart Grapefruit and tequila go together like peanut butter and chocolate, in my honest opinion, and the Greyhound is a simple prep that’s perfect for a summer afternoon. I discovered these at a neighborhood joint, Ziba’s, a few years ago. I had to start making them at home during the pandemic before restaurants began reopening.
The Greyhound
SpiritAgave
Cocktail familyHighball
Flavors
Makes
Ingredients
2ozCasamigos Blanco Tequila
4ozFresh Squeezed Grapefruit Juice
1/4ozFresh Squeezed Lime Juice
Top with Sodasee Note to Taste
Method
Add all ingredients but soda to shaker.
Add ice, shake 10-15 seconds until well chilled.
Pour over fresh ice in a collins glass.
Top with soda, garnish with lime and/or grapefruit wedge.
Note: For a drier cocktail, top with club soda or grapefruit Topo Chico.
For a sweeter taste, use ginger ale or Jaritos grapefruit soda.
This Last Word variant created in the 2010s, it substitutes tequila for gin, pink Fresh Squeezed Grapefruit Juice for lime, and yellow Chartreuse for green Chartreuse, marrying herbal sweetness with bright citrus. This is not the Third Ward drink created in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward – an old-fashioned varient using vanilla bean simple syrup for sweetener.
Third Ward
SpiritAgave
Cocktail familyEqual-Parts · Sidecar
FlavorsFresh · Herbal
Makes
Ingredients
3/4ozTequila
3/4ozFresh Squeezed Grapefruit Juice
3/4ozMaraschino
3/4ozYellow Chartreuse
Method
Place ingredients in shaking tin, add ice, shake for 15 seconds.
Here’s a sophisticated take on a tequila drink, with a nice dryness balanced by the dark sweetness of cherries. Try different tequilas – I’ve enjoyed blanco here but aged reposado works as well.
Ty Cobbler
SpiritAgave
Cocktail familyOld-Fashioned
Flavors
Makes
Ingredients
2ozBlanco or Reposado Tequila
1/2ozCynar
1/4ozSimple Syrup
3Amarena Cherries
2dash Fee Brothers Aztec Chocolate Bitters
Method
Add all to shaker.
Add ice, shake about 15 seconds.
Double-strain over fresh crushed ice in a double old-fashioned glass.
