Ingredients
- 2 oz
- Empirical Soka
- 0.5 oz
- Fresh lime juice
- 0.5 oz
- Simple syrup (2:1)
- 2 dashes
- Orange bitters
- 3.3 oz
- Fever-Tree tonic water
Glass: Highball (crushed ice)
Garnish: Fresh lemon verbena
Build
- Pour Soka, lime, simple, and bitters into a highball.
- Fill with crushed ice and stir.
- Top with tonic water and more crushed ice.
- Garnish with a generous palmful of fresh lemon verbena.
Empirical's house highball for Soka. Crushed ice keeps it shockingly cold; tonic stretches the sorghum long; orange bitters bridge the herbal middle. A palmful of fresh lemon verbena over the top closes it with a perfume that no garnish-by-default can match.