Salty Dog Punch
A sophisticated batch cocktail featuring vodka and grapefruit juice served with salted rims, scaling the classic brunch favorite for elegant party service.
- 16 ozvodka
- 32 ozgrapefruit juice
- 2 ozsimple syrup
- grapefruit wedgesgarnish
- 1Combine vodka and fresh grapefruit juice in a punch bowl
- 2Add simple syrup and stir to combine
- 3Chill until ready to serve
- 4Offer sea salt on the side for rimming glasses
- 5Garnish with grapefruit wedges
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The Salty Dog Punch scales the Salty Dog — a salted-rim Greyhound made with vodka or gin and grapefruit juice — into large-format punch bowl service for brunches, garden parties, and outdoor summer gatherings. The Salty Dog's history traces to the original Greyhound cocktail, documented in print by 1930, with the salted rim variant becoming popular alongside the Margarita's salt rim culture of the 1970s, when bartenders discovered how sodium suppressed bitterness in citrus-based cocktails. The punch version offers guests the option of salt-rimmed individual glasses to self-select the Salty Dog experience, making it a customizable format well-suited to entertaining. Grapefruit juice's natural bitterness and refreshing character make it one of the more adult-oriented punch options.
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