Maxwell Park Margarita
A clean three-ingredient margarita designed to showcase a premium blanco instead of hiding it.
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Cocktail Recipe
Kentucky Honey Paloma
Grapefruit, lime, tequila and Kentucky honey in an easy warm-weather Paloma.
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Servings
- 1
- Glass
- Highball
Ingredients
- 2 oz blanco tequila
- 0.5 oz fresh lime juice
- 0.5 oz honey syrup (Kentucky wildflower honey, cut 1:1 with warm water)
- 3 oz grapefruit soda, or fresh grapefruit juice topped with soda water
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
- 1
Add tequila, lime, honey syrup and a pinch of salt to a highball glass.
- 2
Stir briefly to combine before adding ice.
- 3
Fill with ice and top with grapefruit soda.
- 4
Lift gently with a bar spoon and garnish with a grapefruit twist.
Glassware & Garnish
Serve in a highball, garnished with grapefruit twist.
Editor's note: Kentucky wildflower and clover honeys are darker and more floral than commodity honey — worth seeking out at a farmers market, and worth cutting with water so it mixes cold.
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