Salty Dog Punch – this easy cocktail recipe is made with grapefruit juice, vodka, and soda with lime for garnish and a salted rim! It’s the perfect not-to-sweet spring or summer punch!
It’s feeling like spring here (finally) and the sunshine and warmer weather makes me think about lazy days by the pool and hosting pool parties. And whenever I think about a pool party or a warm spring evening with friends, I always think about cocktails. This Salty Dog Punch is the first of three cocktails I have to share with you over the next few weeks and it’s a keeper, so be sure to pin it because you’re going to want to come back to it again and again. It’s inspired by a cocktail I had at the Morton Salt Next Door Chef: Nashville even I went to a few months ago, and is really brought together by the salted rim.
So, you ask, what is a “Salty Dog” cocktail? It an easy recipe that combines either gin or vodka with grapefruit juice, which is basically a greyhound cocktail but the difference is that you salt the rim of the glass, like you do margarita. (Get it? Salty Dog is a Greyhound with salt? Haha!) I started thinking about what drinks besides margaritas have salted rims and a little research led me to this gem of a drink. Not only does it taste good, but it’s so pretty and just screams spring, doesn’t it?
Normally, a Salty Dog is just one drink: you make yourself one in a highball glass after a long day at work. But, crafty girl that I am, I turned it into a PUNCH recipe because it’s no fun to drink alone. To turn the drink into a punch, I added a bottle of lemon-lime soda. I like adding a bit of sweet to my cocktails, especially with the unsweetened grapefruit juice, but if you want a more authentic drink, you can use club soda instead.
Just a few ingredients: grapefruit juice, vodka, soda, lime, and a nice salted rim turn into the perfect party punch! I can see myself drinking this away at Easter brunch, can’t you?
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