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Salty Dog

Name: Salty Dog
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1 glass
Cuisine: International
Ingredients: 4 ½ cl Vodka; 12 cl Grapefruit juice; Salt (for the rim); Ice cubes

Grapefruit with a salt rim.

Glass: Highball
Method: Built in the glass
Time: 2 min
Strength: Light

fresh sour dry Easy

18+ Contains alcohol. 18+ only – please enjoy responsibly.

Ingredients

1 Glass

cl ml oz

Vodka ✓ you have it 4 ½ cl
Grapefruit juice ✓ you have it 12 cl
Salt for the rim ✓ you have it
Ice cubes ✓ you have it

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Glasses

Highball Glasses

Jiggers

Japanese Jigger

Juicers

Lime Squeezer

All bar tools

Vodka and fresh grapefruit juice in a salt-rimmed glass – tart, salty, refreshing.

Method

1
Moisten the rim of the glass with grapefruit and dip it in salt.
2
Fill with ice.
3
Add the vodka and grapefruit juice and stir.

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Glasses

Highball Glasses

Jiggers

Japanese Jigger

Juicers

Lime Squeezer

All bar tools

The story of the Salty Dog

The Salty Dog is a close relative of the Greyhound, a mix of spirit and grapefruit juice that spread across the US from the 1940s. The salted rim gave the drink its own identity – and its fitting name. It was often made with gin at first; today vodka is more common.

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Illustrative image · AI-generated for Cocktailline. This is roughly how a Salty Dog is classically served.