Name: Ray's Hard Lemonade
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 7 fresh Mint leaves; 60 ml Vodka; 30 ml Lemon juice; 60 ml Lime juice; 45 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); Top up with Soda (club soda) water

Ray's Hard Lemonade
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
7 fresh	Mint leaves
2 oz	Ketel One Vodka
1 oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
2 oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
Top up with	Thomas Henry Soda Water

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of mint sprigs.

How to make:

Lightly MUDDLE (just to bruise) mint in base of shaker.
Add next 4 ingredients and SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
TOP with soda and briefly stir.

Garnish:

Garnish with mint sprigs bouquet.
Serve with a straw.

Review:

Alcoholic lemonade with mint? A vodka mojito? However you describe it, it works.

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Variant:

Hard Lemonade

History:

Discovered in 2004 at Spring Street Natural Restaurant, New York City, USA.

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Mad Hatter

27th July at 16:20

A very nice minty summer cocktail/boozy lemonade indeed. Even in a too small glass, with nearly no soda in it, it did not get too sour. And the vodka is basically not present, which is dangerous in itself. Three of those and the party can start.

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