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I am really sorry I didn't get a picture of the finished drink, too dark but it's gorgeous. I don't like the gin I have and thought vodka and mastiha would be more to my taste so:

1.5 oz vodka

2 oz adjusted grapefruit juice (juiced one sweet pink grapefruit and one lime, mixed, then measured 2 oz of the mix)

1/2 oz each of the St. Germain, the Campari, and the Mastiha.

Shaken, poured what fit into a coupe and drank the rest from the shaker, it's delicious and the dark pink with foam is really beautiful.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've never heard of Mastiha. What kind of liquor is it? What's the flavor like?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mastika or mastiha is a liqueur seasoned with mastic, a resin with a slightly pine or cedar-like flavor gathered from the mastic tree [...] It has a distinctive flavor, reminiscent of pine and herbs.

-Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

So like a retsina wine I guess? Sounds interesting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It's not like anything else, but kind of reminds me of vaguely minty cucumber in a way, not pine like Christmas trees. It's too sweet on its own but really good and, well, not like anything else I have.