Chūhai Cocktail

The chūhai cocktail is Japan's favorite highball. The three key ingredients - shochu, fresh juice, & soda water - are tikified here with our Almond Orgeat Syrup and blood orange juice.

• ½ oz Almond Orgeat Syrup
• 2 oz shochu (optional coconut washed*)
  
• ¼ oz Velvet Falernum
  
• 1½ oz blood orange juice
  
• ½ oz fresh lemon juice
  
• 2 oz club soda

• Add all ingredients except for club soda to a cocktail shaker
• Add ice and shake hard for 10 seconds
• Strain into a highball glass filled with ice
  
• Top with club soda

* For the coconut washed shochu combine 1 cup of coconut oil with 750 ml of whiskey. Shake and leave at room temperature (avoid solidification of the coconut oil) for 24 hrs. Toss in the freezer until the oil has solidified on top. Remove this oil and filter shochu through a coffee filter to clarify.

Glass:

• highball
  

Garnish:

• dehydrated blood orange wheel
  
• pineapple frond
  

Photo:

Subtle Tiki