Make The Best Paloma Cocktail

This week, we celebrate grapefruit with the Paloma, a famous cocktail from Mexico! Traditionally, it calls for a grapefruit soda, and our version uses fresh grapefruit juice with lime, soda water, and a hint of sugar.

The origins of the grapefruit are mysterious. We know this hybrid of a pomelo and a sweet orange appeared in Barbados in the mid-1600s due to Europeans planting citrus all over the West Indies. The fruit was most likely called a "shaddock" or the "forbidden fruit." The word "grapefruit" was not even recorded until the 1830s.

Grapefruits, like many citrus fruits, are a boost to the immune system, and they are full of vitamins A + C. When picking out your grapefruit, pick a heavier fruit that is firm and springy. The heavier the grapefruit, the juicer it will be!

Once you have all your ingredients, check out our tutorial above for The Cocktail Camp's favorite recipe for this refreshing cocktail!

Here’s how to make it:

Rim Collins glass with a lime wedge. Dip in salt for a full salt rim.

In small tin, add:

1 1/2 oz Blanco Tequila

1/2 oz Fresh Grapefruit Juice

1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice

1/2 oz simple syrup

Add 3 ice cubes and short shake approximately 3 seconds

Strain to ice-filled Collins glass.

Top with soda water. Garnish with Lime Wedge & add a straw.

Enjoy!