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.
Ingredients:
- ½ oz Almond Orgeat Syrup
- 2 oz shochu (optional coconut washed*)
- ¼ oz Velvet Falernum
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1½ oz blood orange juice
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½ oz fresh lemon juice
- 2 oz club soda
Instructions:
- Add all ingredients except for club soda to a cocktail shaker
- Add ice and shake hard for 10 seconds
- Strain into a chilled highball glass
- Top with club soda
- Garnish into dehydrated blood orange wheel and pineapple frond
* 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.
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