Flor de Jalisco (Hibiscus Tequila Mule)

Name: Flor de Jalisco (Hibiscus Tequila Mule)
Prep time: PT0D0H0M
Cook time: PT0D0H5M
Total time: PT0D0H5M
Yield: makes 1 cocktail
Ingredients: 2 oz. tequila blanco; ½ oz. agua de jamaica; ½ oz. fresh grapefruit juice; ½ oz. fresh lime juice; Ginger beer, to taste; 1 lime slice

This refreshing fuschia cocktail is as pleasing to the eye as it is to the tongue.

Serves
makes 1 cocktail
Time
5 minutes

PHOTO: LINDA PUGLIESE • FOOD STYLING: CHRISTINE ALBANO • PROP STYLING: CARLA GONZALEZ-HART

By Shannon Mustipher

Updated on June 8, 2022

Agua de jamaica is a hibiscus infusion that you can easily brew at home. When making this gingery riff on the paloma cocktail, grapefruit juice can be swapped out for other fresh-squeezed citrus like pomelo, tangerine, or blood orange. Unabashedly nontraditional—in Mexico, hibiscus is not a conventional cocktail ingredient—the flor de Jalisco benefits from a ginger beer that skews spicy such as Ginger Lab.

Featured in “From Jamaica to Senegal, This Crimson Infusion Reigns Supreme.”

Ingredients

2 oz. tequila blanco
½ oz. agua de jamaica
½ oz. fresh grapefruit juice
½ oz. fresh lime juice
Ginger beer, to taste
1 lime slice

Instructions

Step 1

To a shaker filled with ice, add the tequila, agua de jamaica, grapefruit juice, and lime juice. Shake vigorously, then strain into an ice-filled glass. Top with ginger beer and garnish with the lime slice.