Friday, October 31, 2008

Your Weekend Imbibing: Gin Gin Highball

Posted by Josh in cocktails, Highball

Jesus, I haven’t done one of these in a while! Previously, this series died because I was living with my parents and this series was a way to vicariously pretend I was hip and urban. Now that I am urban and… hip, we are restarting it as a way to remind us all that someday we will be able to afford more than PBR.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 ounces gin
• 5 ounces ginger ale
• 2 dashes of Angostura bitters
• Lemon peel, to garnish

Directions

Build the ingredients in a highball glass over ice. Stir and garnish with a lemon peel.

A highball is one of the simplest drinks you can make. Its basic ingredients are a spirit and a nonalcoholic mixer over ice. You can garnish it or add a splash of flavoring (like the bitters that this drink uses). You have probably already mixed a highball before in a red plastic cup and don’t even know it. Jack and Cokes, gin and tonics, one unfortunate night junior year when all that was left was Jose Cuervo and Crystal Light - all of these are highballs.

Thought it is more of a summer drink, the bitters and the softness of the ginger ale rounds it enough to keep it from being too “refreshing” when it is 30 degrees out. Try one or five and have a happy Halloween!

Recipe from The Craft of the Cocktail by Dale DeGroff. A little extra info and the image pulled from Wikipedia.

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