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Genever Collins

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

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Serves:

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Oude genever
5/6 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
1 2/3 fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Collins glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered half orange slice wheel and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry (sail).

Method

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring soda.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered orange slice wheel and maraschino cherry (sail).

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Genever Collins contains 148 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
11.77% alc./vol. (23.53° proof)
18.9 grams of pure alcohol

History

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

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The Tom Collins was originally made with genever, so this is the original Collins.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.

AKA: Genever Collins or Phil Collins

Variations/similar cocktails

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

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Comments & Discussion

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John CARR 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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.