Makes 1 mocktail

Using ash salt and ash syrup, you have lots of options to smoke up your next mocktail. Ash salt is used to garnish the rim of the glass, and ash syrup and grapefruit mimic the citrus and smokiness of a mezcal paloma.

Ashy Grapefruit Mocktail

Servings: 1 cocktail

Ingredients

  • 3 ounces grapefruit juice (about 1 small grapefruit)
  • 2 ounces lime juice (about 1 large lime)
  • 1 ounce ash simple syrup
  • 1/2 ounce maple syrup
  • 2 dashes grapefruit bitters (or orange bitters)
  • 3 ounces soda water
  • Vegetable ash salt, for rim
  • Lime wedge, for rim

Instructions

  • Juice grapefruit and lime. Rub the rim of a collins-style glass with a lime wedge, dip it into vegetable ash salt, fill it with ice, and set aside. Add grapefruit and lime juice, ash syrup and maple syrup, and bitters to a cocktail shaker and shake. Pour into glass and top with soda water.