Name: Sandstorm
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 30 ml Grand Marnier; 15 ml Vanilla liqueur; 45 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 45 ml Pineapple juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 7.5 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Lime cordial

Sandstorm
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Giffard Vanille de Madagascar
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Pineapple juice
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Lime cordial (sweetened lime juice)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare garnish of pineapple wedge.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
Garnish with pineapple wedge on rim.

Review:

A long, fruity cocktail featuring well-balanced sweet and sourness.

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History:

Created in 2003 by James Cunningham at Zinc in Glasgow, Scotland, and is named for its cloudy yellow colour.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Sandstorm contains 282 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
12.18% alc./vol. (12.18° proof)
24.7 grams of pure alcohol

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Charlie Forbes

16th August 2024 at 21:22

A light summer refresher. Somewhat subject to the sweetness of your grapefruit juice, tart/bitter notes can get away from you w/o sweet juice and careful measurement. Delicious!

Calvin Grant

4th January 2024 at 04:31

I want to like this cocktail and even with the substitutions (I used packaged white grapefruit juice, and licor 43 for the vanilla) it was promising but something wasn't right. Every time I use Rose's Lime Juice I get this lingering industrial bitterness that's not the kind of bitter we intentionally add to our beverages. whilst checking the internet for a substitute, came across a recipe at jeffreymorgenthaler.com. His uses sugar, lime juice, lime zest and citric acid. Great comments also.