Name: Genever Collins
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Oude genever; 25 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 50 ml Soda (club soda) water

Genever Collins
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Oude genever
⁵⁄₆ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

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Garnish: Orange slice & Luxardo Maraschino Cherry on stick (sail)

How to make:

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice & strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with soda.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

The Tom Collins was originally made with genever, so this is the original Collins. However, old tom gin replaced genever on a Tom Collins, relegating genever to what has become known as the Dutch or Genever Collins.

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AKA: Genever Collins or Phil Collins

Variant:

Variously known as the Dutch Collins or the Genever Collins, and in recent years the "Phil Collins" (not after the musician but after Philip Duff and his Old Duff Genever). There are lots of other siblings in the large Collins family:
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 Genever Collins contains 148 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
11.77% alc./vol. (11.77° proof)
17.6 grams of pure alcohol

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John CARR

16th December 2023 at 11:21

Still trying to get my head around genever. Agree with JH’s description below re the sour note - reminiscent of sourdough. Tried directly after the classic Tom Collins, which I think I prefer at this point. But nonetheless tasty and refreshing.

Avery Garnett

31st July 2024 at 16:44

I find "genever is like gin" comparisons quite strange, because they taste nothing alike. I liken jonge genever to vodka where the primary flavour is a minerality and a lot of nothing, and oude genever to a lighter scotch.