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It’s Been a Long Week: Surf City Spritz


Image: ESSENTIAL HOMME, Ace Hotel Los Angeles.

As true believers of the work hard, play hard mantra, we present you with It’s Been a Long Week, a weekly column aimed at awarding some liquid appreciation to you for just being yourself, dammit. Make a glass or two on us, you deserve it.

WHAT

Los Angeles’ boutique Ace Hotel knows how to summer—usher in the season’s last remaining moments with the ticklingly sweet Surf City Spritz, mixed by Dan Sabo and Harry May Kline. The perfect companion for late nights on the beach or for hanging ten, this is a cocktail that screams cowabunga.

HOW

Ingredients:

  • 1 oz. Aviation Gin
  • 0.75 oz. St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
  • 0.5 oz. Plantation Pineapple Rum
  • 0.5 oz. Cocchi Americano
  • 0.25 oz. Honey syrup
  • 1 oz. Coconut water
  • 2 oz. Club soda

Image: ESSENTIAL HOMME, St-Germain, Aviation, Plantation, Le Sirop de Monin, Jax Coco, Perrier, and Aperitivo Americano.

THEN

Build in a glass with ice cubes, stir, and top with soda down a bar spoon.