Southside

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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
7 fresh Mint leaves
2 oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
3⁄4 oz Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1⁄2 oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 drop Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water) optional
1⁄3 oz Thomas Henry Soda Water optional
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare mint leaf for garnish.
  3. Lightly MUDDLE mint in base of shaker (just to bruise).
  4. Add next 4 ingredients and SHAKE with ice.
  5. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  6. TOP with a splash of chilled soda from a bottle/can or just the merest squirt from a chilled soda siphon.
  7. Garnish with mint leaf.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 7/10
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Review:

Gin and mint with a splash of lime. If you like a Mojito and you like gin, then you'll also like the Southside.

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Variant:

South Side Fizz
South Side Rickey
South Side Royale

History:

The cocktail (straight-up) version of the vintage South Side Fizz.

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Egg McKenzie’s Avatar Egg McKenzie
28th April at 07:09
It’s nice but I can’t see when I’d order this over a mojito or daiquiri.
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Michaël Van Den Eede’s Avatar Michaël Van Den Eede
8th December 2022 at 19:37
Gently muddled the mint and used Tanqueray. Accidentally used lemon juice(because I tought it was like that). Was nice nevertheless!
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Florian Ruf’s Avatar Florian Ruf
4th July 2022 at 14:55
Simple, wonderful and easy drinking, we loved it on a summer afternoon. Would be interesting to make it more sophisticated with some Yellow Chartreuse.
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Alejandro’s Avatar Alejandro
1st April 2022 at 23:13
Very nice recipe. I tried it with 5 leaves so it’s not too minty and it works fine.
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Ryuji Nakamura’s Avatar Ryuji Nakamura
9th February 2022 at 07:26
Very nice as per recipe, I experimented Maraschino in place for sugar syrup worked well too.
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Jeremy Harrold’s Avatar Jeremy Harrold
21st October 2021 at 08:42
So simple to make, so easy to drink.
I threw in a few more mint leaves as I do like mint!
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Doug B’s Avatar Doug B
28th May 2021 at 21:53
Perfect summertime drink! I tried it with mint infused simple syrup. It was delicious!
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Sherri Rita’s Avatar Sherri Rita
4th August 2021 at 00:47
Likewise!
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billy mitchell’s Avatar billy mitchell
19th June 2020 at 17:55
fresh summer cocktail. Top stuff
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