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Shake vigorously with ice to build a nice head of foam. Strain into an ice filled Collins glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry and a chunk of pineapple.

Notes

Originally served without garnish. An orange twist is also optional.
Can be strained into a highball and topped with soda. Lemon Juice can be substituted for lime, and any aromatic bitters for Angostura.

History

A Variant of the gin sling. My research suggests that this is as likely as any to be the original, authentic recipe, and more likely than most. Embury avows he's never seen two recipes alike for this drink. 1915 is one of several years in which this might have been created, between 1912 and 1921, but seems likely.

Curator rating

5 stars

Average rating

4 stars

(33 ratings)

From the Knowledge Vault

Who Makes My Bourbon?

This is the fifth in a series on Bourbon by Zach Pearson. Read them all: Bourbon, Bourbon After the Act, Bourbon: What it is ... and isn't, Making Bourbon, Who Makes My Bourbon, Producer Capsules., Finding the Good Stuff, Tasting the Good Stuff, Neat, Mashbills, Geeky Information and Resources.

About a year ago, GQ exerpted this great picture from David Haskell's The Kings County Distiller Guide to Urban Moonshining. Click the image on the left to see the detail. It’s pretty easy to see from this that there are really only thirteen major Bourbon producers in the United States. These 13 distilleries are owned by only nine companies.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. You can’t walk into a liquor store and not see an entire 50 foot shelf of Bourbons with names you’ve never heard of. Some of them are even local. All of them have great stories on the back about how this particular Bourbon was the favorite of Ulysses S. Grant or Al Capone or was made by some hill-William from a secret family recipe only recently rediscovered inside a hollow log in Possum Lick, Kentucky. Like the Templeton Rye label to the left. Click it to expand and read it.

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Recent Discussion

Re Staten Island, 19 hours 55 minutes ago Thierry Vandevelde commented:
Flavour packed and well balanced on the sweet side. Excellent !
Re Puritan Cocktail, 1 day ago Artur B commented:
1 2/3 oz gin, 1/2 oz dry vermouth, 1/3 ozx Yellow Chartreuse, 1-2 ds Orange bitter.
Re Saboteur!, 2 days ago danoman89 commented:
4.25/5. Well balanced, apple cider
Re Lush Life, 2 days ago danoman89 commented:
Really really tasty; 4.5/5
Re Machine Gun Etiquette, 3 days ago flickerdart commented:
If your other ingredients aren't quite up to snuff, a drop of absinthe instead of the Peychaud's makes this drink something special.