Harlem Walk

For New York City Bartender Brook, this drink came from makes me think about growing up and spending time in large gatherings at church, where in Georgia at least there was always some kind of combo drink made with frozen sherbet and ginger ale or 7-up —the sort of mixture that every child loved and turned them into screaming and running in circles. But Brook remembers savoring it as a kid and admits that the memory of it is so strong that, as a grown man, if she saw a bowl of ginger ale and sherbet she’d “attack it.” This is her more sensible, adult version of that childhood memory— a summery mix of grapefruit-infused sugar, HH Bespoke Gin, ginger ale, and grapefruit bitters.
Main Spirit
HH Bespoke Gin
Ingredients
1 1/2 oz HH Bespoke Gin
1/2 oz Grapefruit Oleo
1/2 oz Grapefruit Juice
2 oz Ginger Beer
1 dash Grapefruit Bitters
Preparation
1 Shake gin, grapefruit oleo, and grapefruit juice in cocktail shaker with ice.
2Pour ginger ale and shaken ingredients into glass over ice.
3Top with a dash of bitters.
Served
Over large ice cube
Standard garnish
Grapefruit slice
Drinkware
Coupe glass