Learn how to make the ultimate Midori sour with our easy recipe. Perfect for summer parties, this vibrant green cocktail is refreshing and delicious. Hey there, DIY cocktail enthusiasts!

Learn how to make the ultimate Midori sour with our easy recipe. Perfect for summer parties, this vibrant green cocktail is refreshing and delicious. Hey there, DIY cocktail enthusiasts!

The Midori Sour was the cocktail that defined the 1980s — but it's still just as delicious today. A typical recipe for the drink consists of Midori (a Japanese melon-flavored sweet liqueur ...

For this Midori Sour, Julia Momose, owner of Kumiko, a Japanese dining bar in Chicago, and author of The Way of the Cocktail: Japanese Traditions, Techniques & Recipes, uses Mizu Green Tea shochu.

Whether you’re enjoying it in a play on a Midori Sour, a more complicated, globe-trotting cocktail, or even simply with some club soda in a simple highball, one bottle of Midori can take you in ...

(This is part of the decades-long trend of cocktails dialing back the sweetness, but that's a story for another column.) The new recipe was ... to make you a Midori sour, a Japanese Slipper ...