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Vodka Collins

Name: Vodka Collins
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Vodka; 25 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 50 ml Soda water

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
5/6 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
1 2/3 fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Collins glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered orange slice & cherry sail.

Method

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
TOP with soda and briefly stir.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Vodka Collins contains 184 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
11.77% alc./vol. (23.53° proof)
18.9 grams of pure alcohol

History

The exact origins of this drink are unknown, but its earliest appearance in a cocktail recipe book is in Ted Saucier's 1962 Bottoms Up - New and Revised Edition, which credits its creation to "Ted Majeski, United Press International."

Edward Majeski (1919-1988) was executive editor of the news picture service at United Press International and, according to his obituary in The New York Times, "boasted of never having taken a news picture in his career. But he was celebrated for a keen eye in recognizing a good picture." Apparently, he was also a keen amateur cocktail maker.

VODKA COLLINS
By Ted Majeski, United Press International
Juice ½ lemon
1 bar spoon powdered sugar
1 jigger vodka
Shake well with ice and strain into Collins glass. Add a lump of ice and fill glass with soda water. Decorate with 1 slice lemon, 1 maraschino cherry and a sprig of fresh mint.
Ted Saucier, Bottoms Up, 1952

See the history of the Collins cocktail on our Tom Collins page.

Review

A Tom Collins with vodka - a refreshing balance of sweet and sour.

AKA: Joe Collins

Variations/similar cocktails

In his 1948 The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks David A. Embury says, "Originally there were two brothers only in the Collins family - Tom and John. During recent years, however, numerous cousins have appeared on the scene - Pedro, Pierre, Sandy, Mike, Jack, the Colonel and several others whose first names have not yet been officially recorded in the baptismal registry."
Captain Collins - with Canadian whisky
Colonel Collins - with bourbon whiskey
Dutch Collins or Genever Collins (aka Phil Collins) - with genever/jenever/Hollands
Jack Collins - with calvados
Jock Collins or Sandy Collins - with Scotch whisky
Joe Collins or Vodka Collins - with vodka
John Collins - with London dry gin
Jose Collins or Pepito Collins - with tequila
Mike Collins or Ronan Collins - with Irish whiskey
Pedro Collins - with light white rum
Pierre Collins - with cognac/brandy
Pisco Collins - with pisco
Rum Collins - with aged rum
Tom Collins - with old tom gin
Whiskey Collins - with bourbon/rye whiskey