Coconut Cartel
1 recipe
Blanco Paloma
Blanco rum stands in for tequila — long, bittersweet, sea-salt rim.
Highball4 min
Blanco Paloma
Blanco rum stands in for tequila — long, bittersweet, sea-salt rim.
Highball4 min
Ingredients
- 2 oz
- Coconut Cartel Blanco Rum
- 2 oz
- Fresh grapefruit juice
- 0.5 oz
- Fresh lime juice
- 0.25 oz
- Agave or simple syrup
- Top
- Club soda
- —
- Coarse sea salt (rim)
Build
- Rim a highball glass with coarse sea salt; fill with fresh ice.
- Shake rum, grapefruit, lime, and syrup with ice.
- Strain into the prepared glass.
- Top with club soda; garnish with a grapefruit wedge.
GlassHighball (salt-rimmed)
GarnishGrapefruit wedge
Coconut Cartel's Paloma swap: the Blanco rum replaces blanco tequila. Fresh grapefruit and lime get balanced with agave; club soda lengthens; coarse sea salt on the rim signs it off. Shake everything except the soda, strain over fresh ice, top, drink slowly.
Empirical Spirits
3 recipes
Ayuuk Paloma
Pink grapefruit soda meets smoky Pasilla Mixe — three ingredients.
Highball2 min
Ayuuk Paloma
Pink grapefruit soda meets smoky Pasilla Mixe — three ingredients.
Highball2 min
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz
- Empirical Ayuuk
- —
- Squeeze of lime
- Top
- Pink grapefruit soda
Build
- Pour Ayuuk and lime juice into a highball with ice.
- Top with pink grapefruit soda; stir gently.
- Garnish with a grapefruit wedge.
GlassHighball
GarnishGrapefruit wedge
Empirical's stripped-down Paloma: Ayuuk replaces the tequila, pink grapefruit soda does the rest of the work, a squeeze of lime sharpens. The bitter pith of pink grapefruit and the smoky chili of Ayuuk turn out to be made for each other.
Plum Paloma
Marzipan and grapefruit, with a Mezcal Sacrvm spine.
Highball3 min
Plum Paloma
Marzipan and grapefruit, with a Mezcal Sacrvm spine.
Highball3 min
Ingredients
- 1.3 oz
- Empirical The Plum, I Suppose
- 0.66 oz
- Mezcal Sacrvm
- 5 oz
- Grapefruit soda
- —
- Lime zest
Build
- Fill a chilled highball glass with ice.
- Pour the Plum and the Sacrvm directly over the ice.
- Top with grapefruit soda, stir gently once with a bar spoon.
- Express lime zest over the surface, drop it in.
GlassHighball
GarnishLime zest
A long, high-acid riff on the Mexican paloma that uses Empirical's 'The Plum, I Suppose' to add marigold and marzipan depth. Lifted by mezcal smoke from Sacrvm. Drinks like sobremesa.
Stoned Paloma
Stonefruit + Del Maguey Vida + pink grapefruit soda — the modern Paloma.
Highball2 min
Stoned Paloma
Stonefruit + Del Maguey Vida + pink grapefruit soda — the modern Paloma.
Highball2 min
Ingredients
- 1.33 oz
- Empirical Stonefruit
- 0.67 oz
- Del Maguey Vida Mezcal
- 5 oz
- Three Cents Pink Grapefruit Soda
Build
- Pour the spirits into a glass over ice.
- Add the soda and stir.
- Microplane lime zest over the top as garnish.
GlassHighball
GarnishLime zest
Empirical's modern Paloma. Stonefruit's marzipan and floral marigold dance against Del Maguey Vida's mezcal intensity; pink grapefruit soda lengthens; lime zest tops. Drinks ridiculously refreshing, with a complexity well beyond its ingredient count.