East Side Cocktail
Add all ingredients, muddle then shake with ice, Strain into glass.
Southside variant with cucumber.
- Add more mint, less lime — ★★★★★
- Used 2.25 oz Fords gin, 0.75 oz lime juice, and 0.50 oz simple syrup with the cucumber slices and mint. Full of flavor and great in the evening and on hot days. Rate 5.0 (because I can't rate 4.5).
- Very tasty, though if you've got the rosewater, salt, and agnostura, it's worth upgrading it to the Romeo & Juliet Cocktail
- Gin is great with cukes and lime. Why not together? Truly excellent summer libation. Not too sweet!
- I top it off with a couple of ounces of soda water and it's a lovely light summer drink.
- Victorian Gentleman´s Gimlet — Gin, Lime juice, Simple syrup, Cucumber, Mint
- Lord Byron — Gin, Mastika, Lime juice, Mint
- Celery Tonic — Gin, Lemon juice, Sugar, Celery stalk, Lemon peel
- Black Bowtie Gimlet — Gin, Bitters, Lime juice, Simple syrup, Squid ink, Salt Solution
- The Oldest Living Confederate Widow — Gin, Orange bitters, Absinthe, Honey syrup, Lemon juice
A user has pointed out that this drink is pretty similar to the Victorian Gentleman's Gimlet, which was created and posted long before this was. Unless people object, I'm going to merge this in a couple of days - each has about 20 users. Thanks, Zachary
Merging is a good idea.
"Eastside" (one word) seems to be a more popular name and may predate that German gimlet. The "Eastside Cocktail" appears in Imbibe dated 2009 and "Eastside Gimlet" in Diffords, where it is claimed this was a 2004 long drink by George Delgado (Libation, NYC) before the up version was popularized by Christy Pope at Milk&Honey. Punch and others haveb obvious riffs on this (with gin and cucumber) called things like "There is no Eastside".
Agreed, my sense is the "Eastside" name is prior and more widely recognized.