Favorite Gin Based Cocktail?

YellowSnow

YellowSnow

Negroni

1 year ago I would have said the classic martini but I'm all in on the negroni. This should be on the Mt Rushmore of classic cocktails.

UW_Doog_Bot

Martini

Gin Martini better make the final four or I'm going to burn your little hobby shop to the ground.

RaceBannon

Tom Collins

Classic cocktail Tom Collins named after a popular joke.
The Tom Collins is a cocktail made with gin, lemon juice, sugar syrup and plain soda water. People have enjoying this refreshing drink for well over 125 years. But do you know the story behind this classic cocktail?

A gin-based drink called a John Collins existed since about 1860 and is believed to have been created by the head waiter of the same name at a restaurant in London. However the name was changed in a recipe book printed 16 years late. In 1874 there was a common joke in New York and other places around the country that involved telling someone that a man named Tom Collins was saying bad things about them. They would start the conversation asking, “Have you seen Tom Collins?” and go on to tell the person that he was in a nearby bar or other business talking badly about them. The goal was to upset that person enough that they would go looking for this fictional man. The joke gained notoriety and became known as the Tom Collins Hoax of 1874. The first Tom Collins recipe was printed in the 1876 book The Bartenders’ Guide by Jerry Thomas, who is known as the father of American mixology. Thomas was based in New York and it is believed that he changed the name of the drink for John to Tom due to the hoax. By 1878 the drink had grown popular and was being served in bars in New York City and around the country.

YellowSnow

Negroni

UW_Doog_Bot said:

Gin Martini better make the final four or I'm going to burn your little hobby shop to the ground.

I'm a fucking traitor to my class. I am descended of old Newport Beach money martini drinkers. But I've gotten addicted to negronis. They are just incredible.

Dennis_DeYoung

Singapore Sling

I'm a tiki dude. I love gin martinis as well. But I fucking love Singapore Slings - which are neither from singapore, nor a sling (which is a type of cocktail).

Dennis_DeYoung

Singapore Sling

RaceBannon said:

Classic cocktail Tom Collins named after a popular joke.
The Tom Collins is a cocktail made with gin, lemon juice, sugar syrup and plain soda water. People have enjoying this refreshing drink for well over 125 years. But do you know the story behind this classic cocktail?

A gin-based drink called a John Collins existed since about 1860 and is believed to have been created by the head waiter of the same name at a restaurant in London. However the name was changed in a recipe book printed 16 years late. In 1874 there was a common joke in New York and other places around the country that involved telling someone that a man named Tom Collins was saying bad things about them. They would start the conversation asking, “Have you seen Tom Collins?” and go on to tell the person that he was in a nearby bar or other business talking badly about them. The goal was to upset that person enough that they would go looking for this fictional man. The joke gained notoriety and became known as the Tom Collins Hoax of 1874. The first Tom Collins recipe was printed in the 1876 book The Bartenders’ Guide by Jerry Thomas, who is known as the father of American mixology. Thomas was based in New York and it is believed that he changed the name of the drink for John to Tom due to the hoax. By 1878 the drink had grown popular and was being served in bars in New York City and around the country.

One of the other pieces to this story is that a lot of gin used to be called 'Tom' gin (which is the sweeter, Dutch style gin used for a Tom Collins traditionally) as opposed to London Dry Gin.

PurpleThrobber

None. Zip. Nada.

Gin blows.

BennyBeaver

Martini

Missed the best one.

The Last Word

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Word_(cocktail)

Doogles

Negroni

YellowSnow said:

1 year ago I would have said the classic martini but I'm all in on the negroni. This should be on the Mt Rushmore of classic cocktails.

Whenever I decide to go back down the rabbit hole, it will almost certainly begin with a negroni down the hatch.

YellowSnow

Negroni

Doogles said:

YellowSnow said:

1 year ago I would have said the classic martini but I'm all in on the negroni. This should be on the Mt Rushmore of classic cocktails.

Whenever I decide to go back down the rabbit hole, it will almost certainly begin with a negroni down the hatch.

I knew you were a classy guy!

whlinder

Gin & Tonic

2 parts Hendricks
1 part St. Germaine
3 parts tonic (diet)
1/2 fresh squeezed lemon
Fresh sliced cucumbers

Tequilla

Tom Collins

Nothing like a great Collins

Doog_de_Jour

Martini

Dennis_DeYoung

Singapore Sling

whlinder said:

2 parts Hendricks
1 part St. Germaine
3 parts tonic (diet)
1/2 fresh squeezed lemon
Fresh sliced cucumbers

I believe you are looking for the gin based salad thread, sir.

LesGrossman

Martini

Dry Gin Martini. With an olive, please.

YellowSnow

Negroni

LesGrossman said:

Dry Gin Martini. With an olive, please.

It's still probably the GOAT. I can't argue with this.

YellowSnow

Negroni

Thank god Martini is making a come back. There's no way Tom Collins should win this division.

GrundleStiltzkin

PurpleThrobber said:

None. Zip. Nada.

Gin blows.

Turpentine adjacent.


But partly responsible for one of the greatest covers of all tim, so there's that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hGSR5njZE

UW_Doog_Bot

Martini

YellowSnow said:

Thank god Martini is making a come back. There's no way Tom Collins should win this division.

Dennis_DeYoung

Singapore Sling

I wonder if any of you know what a Dry Martini is...