Summer Time Cocktail
3/4 Gin. (1 1/2 oz Sarticious Gin)
1/4 Sirop-de-citron. (1/2 oz Homemade Sirop-de-Citron)
Shake well and strain into medium size glass; fill up with soda water.
You may recall my schtick on the South-Side Cocktail: soda if you’ve got some time and straight up if you don’t. Well, in this case I was trying to get a Savoy Cocktail made and photographed before heading out to meet some friends. No time for soda!
Kind of regretted that decision. Where I can see how this would have been OK as a long drink, as a short drink it was too sweet and concentrated. A lemon life saver of a drink. A half ounce of lemon juice would have brightened this a lot, and gone a long way towards making it palatable.
I used the Sarticious Gin, solely because I knew in the near future I would be trying the new gin from the same distiller, Blade, and I wanted to have it fresh in my mind.
Trying the Blade, there is a serious family resemblance.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.
What? No more Blanquette de Limoux? Or perhaps just not feeling that evil?