Name: Eye Opener
Prep time: 60 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Rum - Spiced (cacao & coffee); 10 ml *Special ingredient #1 (see above); 5 ml Ginger juice; 15 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 45 ml Salted grapefruit soda

Serve in an

Old-fashioned glass

Garnish:

Grapefruit wedge

How to make:

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass (preferably over a chunk of block ice). TOP with grapefruit soda.

Special ingredient #1: Cinnamon Oleo – combine 250g sugar, peel of 5 lemons and 3 limes with 6 cracked cinnamon sticks added) in a zip bag for 24 hours in a refrigerator.

2 fl oz	Cacao & coffee spiced rum
1/3 fl oz	*Special ingredient #1 (see above)
1/6 fl oz	Ginger juice
1/2 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1 1/2 fl oz	Salted grapefruit soda
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Review:

With homemade Cinnamon Oleo and fresh ginger juice as ingredients, this cocktail needs a lot of prep to make. Salty grapefruit soda is also not well distributed. If you do then, depending on your oleo, you may find yourself adding a touch more oleo or adding some sugar syrup to balance.

History:

Created by Katalin Bene at Voodoo Reyes Geneva.

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