Name: London Fog
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 7.5 ml Absinthe; 2.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)

Ingredients

1 1/2 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1/4 fl oz

La Fée Parisienne absinthe

1/12 fl oz

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

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of London Fog contains 137 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
31.61% alc./vol. (63.22° proof)
18.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe in Lucius Beebe's 1946 In The Stork Club Bar Book which is proceeded by the following notation:
"If, by reason of ill-advised research among the flagons the night before, scholarship has triumphed over discretion; if in a word the entire human person resembles nothing so much as what the author of this volume's first city editor, Norton Pratt of the Boston Telegram used to define as "a basket of busted bungholes," Burgess Meredith has a cure for it. It's called "London Fog".

London Fog:
1½ oz gin.
¼ oz Pernod's absinthe
Frappe brisky with shaved ice and serve while still foaming.

Lucius Beebe, 1946

Comments & Discussion

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John Hinojos 3 years ago

Being a big fan of Absinthe, I really liked this as an digestive. The herbal falvours of the gin mix wonderfully with the absinthe. I did use an absinthe and gin both from California which allows for similar herbal profile.

Arthur Howe 5 years ago

Beebe offers this recipe — London Fog: 1 1/2 oz. gin, 1/4 oz. Pernod’s absinthe. Frappe briskly with shaved ice and serve while still foaming.

Arthur Howe 5 years ago

In The Stork Club Bar Book (1946), Lucius Beebe writes —

If, by reason of ill-advised research among the flagons the night before, scholarship has triumphed over discretion; if in a word the entire human person resembles nothing so much as what the author of this volume’s first city editor, Norton Pratt of the Boston Telegram used to define as“‘a basket of busted bungholes,” Burgess Meredith has a cure for it. It’s called “London Fog”.