Post #732660 by mikehooker on Fri, Dec 5, 2014 11:56 AM

Thanks for starting this thread. For a long time I avoided recipes that called for grapefruit juice because I'm not a huge fan of the taste and fresh white grapefruit seems hard to find around here. I've made quite a few Mai Kai Rum Barrels at home over the years and always use pineapple instead of grapefruit which makes for a great drink but recently was curious to try a few new drinks that either called for Don's Mix or white grapefruit juice so I searched for the cold carton kind and couldn't find any. Settled for the generic bottled 100% juice variety (didn't see Ocean Spray brand). I find that if I use half of whatever the recipe calls for I enjoy the drink a lot better. I'm not sure if that's a product of the bottled kind having a different flavor than fresh squeezed but if I use the full amount it's all I taste in the drink no matter how many ingredients are in it. I even revisited the Rum Barrel with half the grapefruit recently and it was a very well balanced and tasty drink.

Curious about this grapefruit bitters method. So would one dash of that be an adequate substitute for 1 oz of grapefruit or are you saying to add it in addition to the juice to enhance the flavor?

[ Edited by: mikehooker 2014-12-05 11:57 ]

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