Cocktail · Bhutan
Ara Highball
Build a Bhutan-inspired Ara Highball with local grain spirit, honey, lemon and soda, all measured in oz and ml.
- Yield
- 1 cocktail
- Prep time
- 5 minutes
- Glassware
- Highball glass
- Base
- ara rice spirit
Ingredients
- 2 oz (60 ml) Bhutanese ara
- 0.5 oz (15 ml) fresh lemon juice
- 0.5 oz (15 ml) honey syrup
- 3 oz (90 ml) soda water
Garnish
Lemon wheel
How to make it
- 1Chill a highball glass and measure each ingredient.
- 2Add Bhutanese ara, lemon juice, honey syrup and soda water to the highball glass, putting any sparkling ingredient in last.
- 3Add ice and stir gently three times to combine without flattening bubbles.
- 4Finish with lemon wheel and serve immediately.
The story behind Ara Highball
Ara is Bhutan’s traditional distilled or fermented grain spirit, often made from rice, maize or barley. This house highball lengthens its earthy warmth with honey, lemon and soda.
This is a Where It's Five house creation inspired by local ingredients and drinking traditions, not a historic national cocktail.