Sky Banana
A tropical fusion of Zacapa Grand Solera Reserva, banana liqueur, lime juice, and grapefruit soda, garnished with a fragrant grapefruit zest oil and an edible flower.
Serves:
Ingredients
1.5oz Zacapa Grand Solera Reserva
1oz Banana liqueur
0.5oz Fresh lime juice
0.25oz Simple syrup
2.5oz Grapefruit soda
1 Edible flower for garnish
Equipment
1 Highballl glass
1 Tin on Tin Boston Shaker
1 Measuring jigger
1 Ice scoop
1 Hawthorne strainer
method
Create the simple syrup (1:1 = 100g water + 100g white sugar).
Next, hold one Boston tin in each hand.
Pour all the ingredients as listed (apart from the garnish) into the small half of the tin and fill the half of the big tin with ice.
Put a Hawthorne strainer inside the big tin to keep the ice in place.
Hold the smaller shaker at eye level or higher, with the other shaker directly below, pouring from the top tin to the bottom tin and lowering the smaller tin to catch the stream as you pour. Keep your eye on the tin you are lowering, not the stream.
Repeat three or four times to combine and aerate the liquid.
Pour the cocktail into a highball glass over ice.
To give the cocktail a grapefruit aroma, spray oils from the grapefruit zest on top of the cocktail.
Garnish the cocktail with an edible flower.
Alcohol content: 18.25g
