Snake Eyes Recipe
Mezcal lengthened with coconut water, a squeeze of lime and a spoon of banana liqueur — light, faintly tropical, with a salted rim.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Old fashioned glass
- ABV: 11%
- Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- Mezcal45 ml (1.5 oz)
- Coconut water60 ml (2 oz)
- Fresh lime juice7.5 ml (0.3 oz)
- Simple syrup15 ml (0.5 oz)
- Banana liqueur1 tsp
How to Make It
- Rim a rocks glass with salt and fill it with ice.
- Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice.
- Shake hard until well chilled.
- Strain into the prepared glass.
Garnish
Salt rim
What it tastes like
There is pineapple and passion fruit in it, smoke dominates the nose and it drinks cool and easy.
The technique
Shaking. Anything with juice, syrup, egg white or cream gets shaken: the shaker chills the drink and adds roughly 20% water, and that water is what takes the edge off. Twelve to fifteen seconds, until the tin frosts over. Under-shaking leaves the drink harsh because it never got enough dilution.
Glass and ice
A heavy-bottomed, wide old fashioned glass. Wide enough for one large cube, which is the point: a big cube has less surface area, so the drink gets cold without getting watery.
Ingredient notes and substitutes
- Mezcal
- The Mexican spirit whose smoke comes from roasting the agave in a stone pit. It can stand in for tequila, but the smoke walks over everything else; starting half and half is the balanced move.
- Fresh lime juice
- Freshly squeezed lime. Bottled lime tastes cooked and flat; one lime gives about 30 ml. If you have none, half lemon and half grapefruit juice comes closest.
- Simple syrup
- One part sugar to one part water, stirred until it dissolves — no need to boil it. Keeps a month in the fridge. No syrup? Use the same amount of honey, loosened with a little water.
The Story
A modern low-key mezcal cooler: coconut water stands in for soda, so the drink stays still, soft and lightly saline rather than fizzy.
Frequently asked questions
- How is a Snake Eyes mixed?
- It is shaken and served in an old fashioned glass.
- How strong is a Snake Eyes?
- Roughly 11% ABV as served — right around a glass of wine — an aperitif or an early-evening drink.
- Can a Snake Eyes be made without alcohol?
- Simply leaving the spirit out does not work — the body and the bitterness go with it. The 86 alcohol-free recipes in the catalogue are built to hit that balance from the start.
- Is a Snake Eyes hard to make?
- Easy. No bar kit required — a measure, ice and a jar will do.
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