Originally Posted by
williwaw
I was on a flight yesterday experimenting with the True Grapefruit powder packets. AS has True Lime, True Lemon, and True Grapefruit. These are crystallized citrus rinds and oils. Pretty good punch to them too!
The profiled cocktail in the menu right now is the Wheels Up - which is a grapefruit gin fiz. Using the True Grapefruit packet (half for me per cup) with seltzer and gin you get a nice cocktail. Not too sweet - no sugar in the recipe.
AS was still profiling the "Wheels Up" cocktail on our SEA-PHX flight last night. Although the recipe features Aviation Gin, they were serving Tanqueray.
No upgrade on the flight but service in Premium was awesome, everyone got doubles; chocolate bar and 100K snack as appropriate.
I went with the usual G&T but used Real Grapefruit in lieu of Lime. Ice, mini of Gin, 1 pack of Real Grapefruit and topped off with tonic. It was awesome and the second one was awesomer.
A flavour punch but I still prefer the real fruit as I like to eat the lemons, limes & grapefruit, rind and all, after the sqeeze.
James