Paloma

Steps

1. 1

   Run a lime or grapefruit wedge around the top rim of a highball glass, then roll the wet rim in a shallow dish of coarse salt. Fill the glass to the top with ice cubes.

   

   !Getting salt inside the glass makes the drink too salty as you drink it down.

2. 2

   Pour 50ml of tequila and 15ml of fresh lime juice directly over the ice. Give it a quick stir with a bar spoon to mix the liquid at the bottom.

   

3. 3

   Crack open your grapefruit soda and slowly pour it into the glass until the liquid reaches about an inch from the top. Pouring it down the inside of the glass keeps it from foaming over.

   

   !Pouring the soda too fast makes it foam over the rim and lose its fizz.

4. 4

   Take your bar spoon and give the drink one gentle pull from the bottom up to mix the tequila into the soda without knocking the fizz out. You'll know it's mixed when the color is even from top to bottom.

   ~5s

   

   !Stirring too hard knocks all the carbonation out of the soda.

5. 5

   Stick a grapefruit wedge onto the salted rim and serve it right away while it's still ice cold. The drink should look tall, pale, and cloudy with bubbles rising.