Highballs and long drinks · Vodka
Fresh grapefruit brings the whole show: tart, a little bitter, pleasantly juicy. Pour it over ice with a clean spirit and you get one of the most refreshing highballs you can make in under a minute.
1¾ oz
vodka or gin for the original stylee.g. Absolut · Smirnoff · Grey Goose · Ketel One · Belvedere
5 oz
grapefruit juice
Garnish: Grapefruit wedge · Ice: Ice cubes
Greyhound
Tart and bittersweet, crisp and dry, with clean grapefruit flavor. Light and very refreshing.
Gin and grapefruit juice was already a known combination in the early 20th century, and the drink under the name Greyhound is often linked to the Post House restaurants at Greyhound bus terminals in the United States, where it was reportedly served in the 1940s. Whether the bus line gave the drink its name is not proven, but it is the most widely told explanation.
The drink was originally made with gin. As vodka took over American bars in the decades after the Second World War, it became the default spirit, and today a Greyhound is usually understood to be vodka and grapefruit. Add a salt rim and it becomes the Salty Dog.
Only the rim: a Salty Dog is a Greyhound served in a salt-rimmed glass.
Yes. Early versions used gin; vodka became standard later.
It works, but freshly squeezed juice tastes brighter and less sweet.
The perfect sound
A long drive across America with the windows rolled down.
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