PINEAPPLE HIGHBALL COCKTAIL RECIPE

Fruity and sweet - Fresh - Novice - Highball Glass

The whisky highball is the ideal cocktail format to experiment with flavours. Featuring just whisky and soda, it’s easy to put your stamp on a drink! One popular mixer in drinks is juice, and if you’re wondering, ‘can whisky be mixed with juice?’ the answer is absolutely yes. Despite the deep full-bodied flavours of whisky, it can definitely be paired with fruit juice – especially when enjoyed as a drink for whisky beginners.
We’ve kept things simple yet bold by adding pineapple juice to the mix, but other juices that goes well with whisky are lemon and apple.

Use large cubes of ice (or one long cube) rather than crushed ice to keep your highball cool without over diluting it.

Wondering why it’s called a whisky highball? One belief was that ball was bartenders’ slang for glass, and this drink is best served in a tall glass. The other is to do with railroads, where at maximum train speed the ball indicator would be highest in the tank, and two short whistle blows followed by one long one were given – in the same way two shots of whisky would be followed by one long pour of soda in the drink.