Cocktail Recipe with Terpenes: Critical Highball Jack

Looking for more Cali Terpenes drink recipes? These liquid format cannabis aromas are ideal for giving your cocktails an aromatic hint, surprising almost anyone. Today we’re going to look at a new terpene recipe: Critical Highball Jack.

Our monthly cocktail terpene recipe is here! Today, we’re back with our friends from socialweed.co (IG @socialweed.co).

The cocktail artist Limão (IG @o_limaaoo) is back to surprise is with their delicious recipe nicknamed “Critical Highball Jack”, an intense, delicious drink with a hint of Critical Jack terpenes (cannabis aromas).

This terpene profile provides intense citric and Skunk hints that combine perfectly with the rest of ingredients. Discover our tasting results at the end of the recipe.

Plus, if possible the final touch to this recipe are cherry flowers, which give it a lightly sweet and floral aroma. These beautiful cherry flowers, known as Sakura in Japan, are a symbol of spring, as well as rebirth and hope.

Enjoy this exotic mixture of flavors and aromas!

cannabis flavoring — Creating drinks with different cannabis flavors has never been this easy. With just 1 to 2 drops of terpenes, you can achieve quite a spectacular drink.

Cannabis-Flavored Cocktails: Critical Highball Jack by Socialweed.co, Limão and Cali Terpenes

Next, we’re going to go over all of the necessary ingredients in order to make this surprising recipe. The hardest ingredient to find are the cherry flowers, which are used as decoration and for their aromatic properties. They’re easiest to find during the springtime.

Ingredients

100ml whisky
100ml milk
½ lime juice
Soda
Cricital Jack Terpenes (Critical Jack food-grade aromas or your favorite strain, we recommend citric strains such as Gipsy Haze, available in special drink format.)
*Cherry flower branches. Although it’s not always possible to get them, they give the recipe an amazing aesthetic look as well as a spectacular final aroma.

Video Tutorial

Enjoy this amazing video of the recipe created by @marcelfavery.

Prep

Glassware: Long glass (Highball – Tumbler)
Ice: Yes
Garnish: Cherry flowers

Critical Highball Jack, step by step

This simple recipe has two main steps; preparing the pre-mixture and then making the cocktail. Makes enough for two servings.

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Batch prep

Add 100ml of milk to your mixing container.
Add in 100ml whisky.
As a final touch, add in two drops of Critical Jack terpenes.
Mix until well blended; once done, the mixture is ready.

Drink prep

Add two large ice cubes to your long glass and move around in order to cool it down.
Pour in 100ml of your mixture.
Fill the remainder of the glass with soda.
Decorate using cherry flowers.

Tasting

The idea behing Critical Highball Jack is to enjoy a truly spectacular drink, which has an aroma and flavor that combine multiple flavors and aromas in perfect harmony.

This recipe has a complex combination of sour, intense flavors and aromas which come from whisky, then refreshing and citric aromas from the terpenes, creamy hints from the milk, and flowery aromas from the cherry; an absolute delight for the taste buds.

Main terpenes in Critical Jack: Terpinolene, d-Limonene, Myrcene, Caryophyllene, beta-Pinene, alpha-Pinene, d-3-Careno, Linalool, p-Cymene, alpha-Terpineol, alpha-Terpinene.