Name: Hot Pants
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Reposado tequila; 45 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 10 ml White crème de menthe; 2.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 4 drop Grapefruit bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ fl oz	Patrón Reposado tequila
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Giffard Menthe Pastille white crème de menthe
¹⁄₁₂ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
4 drop	Bob's Grapefruit Bitters
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of grapefruit juice and salt-rimmed glass & grapefruit zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

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Review:

Crème de menthe plays a subtle but crucial role in this palate-cleansing and refreshing aperitivo/digestivo.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in the 1974 edition of the Mr. Boston Official Bartender's Guide

HOT PANTS
1½ oz. Old Mr Boston Tequila
½ oz Old Mr Boston Peppermint Schnapps
1 tablespoon Unsweetened Grapefruit Juice
1 teaspoon Powdered Sugar
Shake with ice cubes and pour into old-fashioned glass rimmed with salt.
Mr. Boston Official Bartender's Guide, 1974

Nutrition:

One serving of Hot Pants contains 163 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
15.32% alc./vol. (30.64° proof)
17.7 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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G. M. Genovese

26th July at 05:17

Not a fan of the adapted recipe. I believe it's a bit heavy on the grapefruit, which ends up diluting the expression of the other ingredients. I made the 1974 recipe right after and I was surprised how relatively enjoyable that was. My only tweak to that recipe was a big pinch of coarse sea salt instead of the rim... potentially polarizing depending on the proportions.