Tex Collins

Name: Tex Collins
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 2 barspoon Honey; 60 ml Pink grapefruit juice; Top up with Soda water

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
2 barspoon	Honey
2 fl oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
Top up with	Thomas Henry Soda Water

Garnish: Lemon slice

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Collins glass

Method:

STIR honey with gin in base of shaker to dissolve honey. Add grapefruit juice, SHAKE with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with soda water.

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

History

Adapted from a recipe in the 1949 edition of Esquire's Handbook for Hosts.

For the full story behind the origins of the Collins and its many variations see our Collins page.

Review

A dry, tart blend of grapefruit and gin.

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