Grapefruit Juice
Grapefruit juice is a tart, slightly bitter citrus juice with a distinctive sharpness that sets it apart from sweeter orange or milder lemon and lime juices. Fresh-squeezed juice has a rounder flavour than bottled versions, which can taste harsher. It brings a refreshing bitterness to a cocktail.
Common uses
- mixer in tall refreshing cocktails
- balances sweet liqueurs
Buying & storage
A few days: Good for a few days refrigerated, then noticeably duller. Worth planning a second drink around rather than throwing away.
Storage: best used within a day or two of squeezing, refrigerate in a sealed container
Before it goes
Use up grapefruit juice
Ranked by how much of it each drink uses and how little else it needs — the ones at the top will not send you back to the shop.
- Salty Dog
Uses 130ml. Also needs vodka.
- Virgin Sea Breeze
Uses 120ml. Also needs cranberry juice.
- Sea Breeze
Uses 30ml. Also needs vodka, cranberry juice.
- Navy Grog
Uses 30ml. Also needs white rum, gold rum, dark rum, fresh lime juice, honey syrup.
Recipes
Cocktails containing this ingredient
Stand-in
Where grapefruit juice is a recommended substitute
Recipes that name it as a swap for something else, with what it replaces.
- Palomain place of grapefruit soda
- Mimosain place of fresh orange juice
- Tequila Sunrisein place of orange juice
- Citrus Coolerin place of orange juice
- Screwdriverin place of fresh orange juice
- Blood and Sandin place of fresh orange juice
- Alcohol-Free Mimosain place of fresh orange juice
- Sex on the Beachin place of cranberry juice
- Bronxin place of fresh orange juice
- Alcohol-Free Palomain place of grapefruit soda
- Alcohol-Free Margaritain place of alcohol-free spirit (agave or botanical style)
- Alcohol-Free Cosmopolitanin place of cranberry juice
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