Gin cocktails
Tom Collins
A gin sour stretched with soda. Long, lemony and easy to drink.
- Strength
- Light
- Sweetness
- Balanced
Ingredients
- 50 ml1⅔ ozLondon dry gin
- 25 ml¾ ozFresh lemon juice
- 20 ml⅔ ozSimple syrup (1:1)
- Top upTop upSoda water
Makes one drink, about 155 ml before ice.
Method
- Add everything except the soda to a shaker. Fill with ice and shake hard for 10 to 12 seconds.
- Strain into a collins glass over glass full of cubes.
- Top with the soda and give it one gentle stir.
- Garnish: lemon wheel and cherry.
- Glass
- Collins glass
- Ice
- Glass full of cubes
- Garnish
- Lemon wheel and cherry
- Tastes
- Sour, Bubbly, Refreshing