Name: Lincoln Club Cooler
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Rum - Light gold (1-3 year old molasses column); 120 ml Ginger ale; 1 Angostura or other aromatic bitters

Serve in a

Collins glass

Garnish:

Lime wedge

How to make:

POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass and gently stir.

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

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

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 153 calories.

Alcohol content:

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

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