How To Make A Grasshopper

The Grasshopper, a sweet, minty after-dinner drink is one of the rare, respected non-Absinthe-based green cocktails.

Grasshopper Ingredients

  • 1 ¼ oz Green crème de menthe
  • 1 ¼ oz White crème de cacao
  • 1 ¼ oz Half and half

Grasshopper Directions

  1. Combine all ingredients in shaker tin .
  2. Add ice to small shaker tin.
  3. Shake vigorously, until tin is frosted over.
  4. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
  5. Enjoy.

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Yield: 1 Cocktail
Updated: 2018-05-29

Grasshopper

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