Name: Hobson
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Sloe Gin liqueur; 30 ml Triple sec (e.g. Cointreau); 7.5 ml Absinthe verte

Serve in an

Old-fashioned glass

Garnish:

Orange slice

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain into glass filled with crushed ice.

2 fl oz	Portobello Road Sloe & Blackcurrant Gin
1 fl oz	Triple sec liqueur (40%)
1/4 fl oz	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
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Portobello Road Sloe & Blackcurrant Gin, 70cl

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Review:

Unbalanced towards sweetness. With drinks like this you can see why Hobson chose to be an abstainer. Originally served 'straight-up' but better over crushed ice.

History:

Named after Richmond Pearson Hobson (1870-1937) the United States Navy Rear Admiral and not Thomas Hobson (1545 - 1631) from Cambridge, England who gave rise to the term 'Hobson's choice'. R.P. Hopson was a hero of the American-Spanish war of 1898 who went on to became a Congressman. An ardent abstainer, Hobson has been called 'The Father of American Prohibition' due of his advocacy for criminalizing alcohol and other drugs and was a prolific author on this subject.