Cocktail · China
Baijiu Highball
Build a Chinese Baijiu Highball with light-aroma baijiu, lemon and soda, using exact oz and ml measurements.
- Yield
- 1 cocktail
- Prep time
- 5 minutes
- Glassware
- Highball glass
- Base
- Baijiu
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz (45 ml) light-aroma baijiu
- 0.5 oz (15 ml) fresh lemon juice
- 4 oz (120 ml) chilled soda water
- 0.25 oz (7 ml) simple syrup
Garnish
Lemon peel
How to make it
- 1Chill a highball glass and measure each ingredient.
- 2Add light-aroma baijiu, lemon juice, chilled soda water and simple syrup 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 peel and serve immediately.
The story behind Baijiu Highball
Baijiu is China’s defining grain spirit, more often toasted neat at banquets than mixed. This house highball uses a light-aroma style with lemon and soda to make its distinctive fermentation notes approachable.
This is a Where It's Five house creation inspired by local ingredients and drinking traditions, not a historic national cocktail.