Mint Collins
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Ingredients
12 fresh Mint leaves
2 oz Gin
3/4 oz Lemon juice
1/2 oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)
2 1/2 oz Soda water
How to make
Serve in a collins glass
- 1 Lightly MUDDLE (just to bruise) mint in base of shaker
- 2 Add next 3 ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass
- 3 TOP with soda and briefly stir.
Flavour profile
No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
History
A minty John Collins – as the name suggests.
Victor Bergeron's 1972 Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide (Revised Edition) offers this adaptation. MINT COLLINS Juice of ½ lemon 2 ounces mint-flavoured gin Carbonated water This drink is prepared by shaking the lemon juice and gin with ice cubes. After straining into a 12-ounce chimney glass, add more ice cubes. Top the glass with carbonated water and stir gently. A lemon slice, orange slice, and a cherry serve as decoration. Serve with straws.
Created by Victor Bergeron A.K.A Trader Vic