JavaScript is not enabled!
For information on how to enable Javascript on your browser click here.

Hot Pants

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 'rich' (2:1); 4 drop Grapefruit bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (10)

Measurements in:

Serves:

Keep screen awake

Ingredients
1 ²⁄₃ fl oz	Reposado tequila (100% agave)
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	Grapefruit bitters
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Freddo Old Fashioned

Method

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.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

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

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

Review

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

Patron Reposado Tequila 375ml - makes 7.5 cocktails
$26.99 $3.60 per cocktail Patron Reposado Tequila image

Giffard Menthe Pastille 750ml - makes 75 cocktails
$39.99 $0.53 per cocktail Giffard Menthe Pastille image

Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 301 cocktails
$14.99 $0.05 per cocktail Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) image

$4.18 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 7.5 cocktails.
Shipping and applicable tax calculated at checkout.

Orders are processed by a licensed Fulproof retailer. The buy now button is added simply for convenience.

Checkout

* May not include all ingredients. Price per cocktail is an estimate based on cost of one cocktail with ingredients shown above and does not include shipping.

Gallery

Comments & Discussion

Please log in to make a comment

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 8w

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.

See more...