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

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)

4 fl oz

Thomas Henry Ginger Ale

1 dash

Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lime wedge.

Method

POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass.

Briefly STIR.

Garnish

Garnish with lime wedge.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Lincoln Club Cooler contains 174 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
10.54% alc./vol. (21.08° proof)
19 grams of pure alcohol

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

Comments & Discussion

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John Taylor 1y

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!...