If you want to make this ahead of time, and for a crowd.

You could always garnish with a thin slice of grapefruit if you’d like. Garnish the cocktails with thin slices of cucumber and a sprig of fresh mint. Then top things off with sparkling water or club soda if you’d like. Pour a bit of the grapefruit juice into each glass, and then pour in some of that fancy infused gin. This is the time to use those fancy ice cubes if you have them.

You can also use those fancy large square ice cubes and just use one per drink, if they’re those jumbo cubes. **Note: If you don’t have access to fresh grapefruits, you can definitely use bottled grapefruit juice instead.**įill short glasses with lots of ice. Once you’re ready to make the cocktails, juice a few ruby grapefruits into a pitcher or jar. It’ll be a green color, darker depending on how long you’ve allowed it to soak. Discard the pieces and just keep the gin. Pour the liquid into another pitcher or jar through a fine mesh strainer to catch all of that muddled cucumber and mint. Once you’ve allowed the gin to chill out, you want to strain it. The longer the gin sits in the fridge with the cucumber and mint, the more flavor you’ll get into your gin.** If you don’t have 4 hours, don’t worry too much about it. **Note: Any amount of time you can let it steep for, is always best. Wrap it in plastic wrap (or use a large mason jar and just place the lid on it) and chill in the fridge for at least 4 hours, or overnight. If you don’t have a cocktail muddler, try using a wooden spoon.** **Note: Muddling helps break down the cucumber and mint and releasing a lot of that great flavor and taste. So in a pitcher, muddle the cucumber and mint. For this recipe I’m infusing gin with cucumber and mint. I love it because it’s a great way to make new and interesting flavors out of the same tired old alcohol we always drink. Julian and I are trying to get into infusing alcohol more and more. This time however, I really do plan on sitting out there on a weekly basis, and something tells me that this Grapefruit Cucumber Gin Fizz is going to help me keep my promise, but more importantly it’ll most definitely help me Cheers to the Weekend! Every time he fixes up the balcony, I vow to sit out there more often but somehow I forget about my promise after a week or two and I end up not enjoying it as much as I should. I’m not complaining though because I figure some thing green is better than nothing. We abandoned that idea and now it’s just filled with cacti and succulents.

Side note: He’s tried to grow some herbs and veggies for me, but our balcony doesn’t get as much sun as I’d like it to so they’ve never lasted. It’s also coming at the perfect time because Julian fixed up our balcony last weekend and now we can actually sit out there again and admire all the plants and strung lights. And what better time to do this than right about now, as the weather is finally turning for the better, and it’s beginning to be so nice outside. I haven’t posted a cocktail recipe in a very long time, so I figured I needed to fix this problem right away, because if you ask me that’s exactly what it is, a big problem.

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