Name: Greyhound's Tooth
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Bénédictine D.O.M.; 45 ml Vodka; 22.5 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 7.5 ml Lemon juice; 8 drop Grapefruit bitters

Ingredients

³⁄₄ fl oz

Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Ketel One Vodka

³⁄₄ fl oz

Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

8 drop

Grapefruit bitters

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Greyhound's Tooth contains 182 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
20.37% alc./vol. (40.73° proof)
21.4 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 2w

On the strength of commentor Calvin Grant's observation on this cocktail and it appearing in our good host's "Top Twenty Vodka Cocktails", we thought we might have been a bit harsh in our earlier judgment about it. Revisiting it, we remain unconvinced. To us, this tastes like a Sidecar variant in which the Vodka and citrus aren't standing up to the Benedictine. Our solution was to split the citrus 50:50 (15ml each). This was much better for us. Maybe introducing lime juice into the mix would also be worth a try.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 1w

Intriguing, look forward to trying.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 5d

Did try the 50/50 citrus split. This was good and then it was gone. Couldn't put it down. The lemon kind of dominated the grapefruit but I could still taste it. Surely the Benedictine was still in there, I find it hard to define sometimes, like it's the bones of the structure. Maybe 10ml lemon, 20ml pink grapefruit? Doesn't anybody use white grapefruit anymore? Will try this next with the original specs. Cheers!

Calvin Grant Premium Member 5d

Ok. Tried again original specs. (with white grapefruit, prefer pink). The Benedictine/Bob's grapefruit bitters are a feature, not a flaw, and I like them up front. Couldn't taste them with the added lemon juice. Otherwise it's just another sour. ★★★★★♥︎

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 5d

It's a jumping off point for an interesting conversation, probably too long for this comments section, and one which could go in a number of directions. Our sense of taste, for each of us, is uniquely sensual and nuanced. Hence the old and true saying: "There's no accounting for taste." But, as our good host rightly insists, the challenge is to grow discerning, not according to some ideal formula but in loyalty to our own true and unique taste. So here's to yours.

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Calvin Grant Premium Member 2w

Absolutely perfect. Benedictine DOM has superpowers and Bob's Grapefruit Bitters bring so much marvelous complexity. Five stars in my opinion.

Cliff Marx Premium Member 23w

Quite tasty. I wish I had more grapefruits.

Donald S 1y

Made this as directed except I used orange bitters. I found it refreshing. I bit on the tart side with the grapefruit and lemon juices but very drinkable and enjoyable. I suppose you could add a small bit of simple syrup but I think it would distract from the balance of the vodka, benedictine and grapefruit. Defiinetely will keep this one on my home menu for guests.

Susie Bright Premium Member 1y

I once wrote a column called “Grapefruit is the New Umami” because it’s a leap for cocktail students to grasp. In cocktails, grapefruit juice plays a chemistry role that has nothing to do with the horrid half-grapefruits your mother made you eat, or someone’s lamebrained crash diet. The Grapefruit juice (fresh, SVP) or bitters, “brings the whole room together” as Mr. Lebowski once said. You don’t taste the fruit per se, you taste an experience that couldn’t come together without this dear ingredient. Try it. Not Greyhounds, although those are fine— something more complicated.

Yossi Burg 3y

Made this once before with Rekja vodka- crisp and refreshing. Just built one now with Zubrowka Bison Grass vodka just because. Result- interesting and softer, the bison grass combined with grapefruit brought on a slight warm cinnamon taste under the citrus sharpness. Would I do this again? Yep. With Reyka again? Yep.