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Under The Bridge

An apple and grapefruit focused drink from Bar Glue

Under The Bridge

Ingredients

Under The Bridge

30ml Bacardi Carta Blanca

25ml Apple Whey

15ml Grapefruit Whey

15ml Sugar Syrup (1:1)

12.5ml Lyme

2.5ml Suze

1 dash Rose Water

Sugared Lemongrass Rim

Lyme Ingredients

500ml Water

20g Citric Acid

8g Malic Acid

4g Fructose Sugar

1g Ascorbic Acid

0.5g Salt

Scale as necessary

New to the list in 2025, Bar Glue shares their recipe for Under The Bridge.

Apple Whey

Juice Granny Smith apples using a centrifugal juicer

Skim off any foam and fine strain the juice a few times to remove any pulp.

Add ascorbic acid at a ratio of 0.5g per litre.

Weigh out agar agar powder at a ratio of 2g per litre.

Combine the agar with 33% of the juice and boil on medium/high for a minute.

Take off the heat and slowly pour the remaining juice in whilst stirring the liquid.

Place the mixture in the freezer and once the agar has begun to solidify remove from the freezer and coffee filter. 

Grapefruit Whey

Juice pink grapefruits and weigh out agar agar powder at a ratio of 2g per litre. 

Combine the agar with 33% of the juice and boil on medium/high for a minute.

Take off the heat and slowly pour the remaining juice in whilst stirring the liquid.

Place the mixture in the freezer and once the agar has begun to solidify remove from the freezer and coffee filter. 

Sugared Lemongrass Rim

Spice grind dried lemongrass with sugar until a fine powder.

Method

Shake and fine strain into a sugared lemongrass rimmed rocks glass over a block.