Captain Collins

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How to make:

1. Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
2. Prepare garnish of orange slice & Luxardo Maraschino Cherry on stick (sail).
3. SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice.
4. STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
5. TOP with soda and briefly stir.

Review:

Sweetened, soured and diluted Canadian whisky.

Variant:

In his 1948 The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks David A. Embury says, "Originally there were two brothers only in the Collins family - Tom and John. During recent years, however, numerous cousins have appeared on the scene - Pedro, Pierre, Sandy, Mike, Jack, the Colonel and several others whose first names have not yet been officially recorded in the baptismal registry."
Captain Collins - with Canadian whisky
Colonel Collins - with bourbon whiskey
Dutch Collins or Genever Collins (aka Phil Collins) - with genever/jenever/Hollands
Jack Collins - with calvados
Jock Collins or Sandy Collins - with Scotch whisky
Joe Collins or Vodka Collins - with vodka
John Collins - with London dry gin
Jose Collins or Pepito Collins - with tequila
Mike Collins or Ronan Collins - with Irish whiskey
Pedro Collins - with light white rum
Pierre Collins - with cognac/brandy
Pisco Collins - with pisco
Rum Collins - with aged rum
Tom Collins - with old tom gin
Whiskey Collins - with bourbon/rye whiskey

History:

See the history of the Collins cocktail on our Tom Collins page.

Nutrition:

One serving of Captain Collins contains 164 calories.

Alcohol content:

• 1.1 standard drinks
• 10.89% alc./vol. (21.78° proof)
• 14.7 grams of pure alcohol