Name: Lincoln Club Cooler
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 120 ml Ginger ale; 1 dash Aromatic bitters

Lincoln Club Cooler
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
4 oz	Thomas Henry Ginger Ale
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.
POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass.
Briefly STIR.
Garnish with lime wedge.

Strength & taste guide:

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Review:

Basically 'a rum and ginger ale Highball' but Lincoln Club Cooler has more of a ring to it.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe originally published in George J. Kappeler's 1895 Modern American Drinks. Kappeler's original recipe called for St. Croix rum.

Lincoln Club Cooler.
Take a long thin Coliins-glass, put into it on lump of ice, one pony St. Croix rum, fill up with a cold bottle imported ginger ale. Serve.
George J. Kappeler, 1895

Nutrition:

One serving of Lincoln Club Cooler contains 174 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
10.54% alc./vol. (10.54° proof)
19 grams of pure alcohol

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John Taylor

3rd June at 10:24

Another tasty blend I hadn't expected, the rum and ginger ale work very well together, I actually forget to add the bitters (Australian in my case) which adds extra spice but could easily be omitted as a variation I think? Sweet and spicy and all too easy to drink!...