Sour Strawberry Highball Recipe
Tequila and a sharp strawberry-vinegar shrub topped with soda: a fizzy, sweet-and-sour highball that tastes of ripe berries.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Highball glass
- ABV: 12%
- Difficulty: Medium
Ingredients
- Tequila60 ml (2 oz)
- Strawberry shrub30 ml (1 oz)
- Soda water90 ml (3 oz)
How to Make It
- For the shrub, macerate sliced strawberries with an equal weight of sugar for a day, strain, and stir in vinegar to taste — about half as much as the syrup.
- Fill a highball glass with ice and add the tequila and the shrub.
- Top with soda water and stir gently.
- Garnish with a lime wedge.
Garnish
Lime wedge
The Story
Built on a shrub, the old vinegar-and-fruit syrup used to preserve summer fruit; its acidity does the job citrus juice would do in a sour.
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