Salty Dog
The Quirky Foodster Team
Highball or rocks glass, salt-rimmed
Glass
Salt rim
Garnish
Ingredients
- Gin — 60 ml (2 oz)
- Fresh grapefruit juice — 120 ml (4 oz)
Method
- Rim a highball glass with salt.
- Fill with ice.
- Add the gin and grapefruit juice, and stir gently.
- Serve as built.
Description: A simple, bracing gin and grapefruit highball finished with a salted rim.
Cultural Background: Popular from the mid-1900s onward; the salt rim is the defining feature that separates it from the unsalted "Greyhound."
Tips: Fresh grapefruit juice makes this drink far better than bottled — its natural bitterness is the whole appeal.
Variations: Skip the salt rim entirely and it becomes a Greyhound.
Serving Suggestion: Serve tall and cold as a bracing, not-too-sweet refresher.
Nutrition: Approx. 150 kcal per serving
FAQs:
Q: What's the difference from a Greyhound?
A: Only the salted rim — otherwise the two drinks are identical.
- Gin — 60 ml (2 oz)
- Fresh grapefruit juice — 120 ml (4 oz)
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