Name: South Side Rickey
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 30 ml Lime juice; 22.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 5 fresh Mint leaves; 40 ml Soda water

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1 fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

³⁄₄ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

5 fresh

Mint leaves

1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz

Thomas Henry Soda Water

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lime wedge and mint sprigs.

Method

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

TOP with soda.

Garnish

Garnish with lime wedge and mint sprigs bouquet.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

19.5 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Jonathan Arnold 12w

Fantastic as written! A great summertime tall drink

Beth Schneider 16w

Delicious and refreshing. Might reduce the sugar slightly next time.

Ruth Harvey 1y

Sometimes less is more. Made it to the instructions and see no reason to deviate! A rare 5+ from me!

Robert Holen 1y

This already was a 5 for me, but when I replaced the sugar syrup with gum syrup and used Beefeater 24. It definitely became a 5+

Robert Holen 1y

Sidenote: There are plenty of cocktails where you can sub the lime with lemon and the difference is minimal. This is not one of them, lime is mandatory.

Deyan Kavrakov 1y

Simple and Fabulous. I kindly recommend muddling the mint leaves with the sprig and lime juice, then add other ingredients. It is dangerously light, sparkly and addictive!

Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

This might actually be the superior Mojito. The gin plays brilliantly with the lime and mint without ever overshadowing them. Because the gin is overpowering you can also let it shine. I made a mix of Hernö's, Hendrick's and Gordon's and it worked really well here. The floral notes from Hendrick's is there but is balanced by Hernö's and Gordon's juniper notes. You also get some cucumber notes just on the very end.

Great cocktail to play around with gins. Highly recommended!

Massimo Cremieux 2y

A different taste with limequat instead lime

Ryan Harrold Premium Member 2y

Although this cocktail isn’t very innovative, this gin based Mojito might be one of the most refreshing cocktails I’ve come across on this website so far, in which I could easily make another one and drink it within what would feel like 5 seconds, definitely worthy of a 5+ rating