5 - 7 oz. - Coup

Gin Sour

About The Cocktail

The Gin Sour hails from the original Whiskey Sour, which was first published in 1862 by Jerry Thomas however it could be argued that the first sour was invented much earlier when sailors would incorporate lemon and lime to their drinks to safeguard themselves from scurvy.

Ingredients

2 oz Desgin Gin
¾ oz Lemon Juice
¾ oz Simple Syrup
1 Egg White

Garnish

3 dash Angostura Bitters

Process

Combine all ingredients in tin and hard shake
Empty ice and dry shake
Double strain ingredients into sour glass
Garnish with three drops of angostura bitters

The order in which you dry shake and wet shake will change the resulting consistency of the drink

Made by Gin Club Members

4 - 7 oz. - Rocks

Last Word

About The Cocktail

Originating from the Detroit Athletic Clubs of the 1920s, it disappeared from the drinking scene several decades later but not before it was mentioned in Ted Saucier’s book Bottoms Up where Murray Stenson found it and brought to bring it back to life at Seattles Zig Zag Cafe. The cocktails green tint comes from the Chartreuse, a liqueur originally intended for medicine use made from 130 different herbs and flowers made exclusively by Carthusian Monks according to a 400 year old manuscript. For the most part, these monks maintain no contact with the outside world.

Ingredients

¾ oz Desgin Gin
¾ oz Lime Juice
¾ oz Maraschino Liquor
¾ oz Green Chartreuse

Garnish

1 Lime Peel

Process

Combine all ingredients in tin and shake.
Strain into coupe glass.
You aren't supposed to garnish but we like to live on the edge.

8 - 10 oz. - Highball

Tom Collins

About The Cocktail

This refreshing cocktail emerged from the private clubs of London, arriving in New York during the 1850s and was catalogued by Jerry Thomas in his 1876 recipe. It possibly originating from the John Collins cocktail with the substitution of Tom for John occurring on Thomas’s insistence of using Old Tom Gin in his recipe. Tom never actually existed despite the great Tom Collins hoax of 1974 where people were told by their acquaintances that a man by that name had been slandering their reputation at the local bar. When this friend showed up hoping for a confrontation and asked the bartender for Tom Collins, they were instead served this bubbly cocktail.

Ingredients

2 oz Desgin Gin
1 oz Lemon Juice
¾ oz Simple Syrup
1 splash Soda Water

Garnish

1 Lemon Wheel

Process

Build ingredients in Collins glass.
Top off with soda water.
Garnish with lemon wheel