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

Colonel Collins
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Bourbon whiskey
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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How to make:

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with soda, stir and serve with straws.

Review:

Sweetened, soured and diluted bourbon.

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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:

Some call a bourbon-based Collins a "John Collins". A John Collins was originally made with genever, then old tom gin and finally London dry gin. The misappropriation of the name John Collins for a whiskey-based Collins is explained in a notation under the Holland Gin-based John Collins recipe in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide. " Note: Since Holland Gin is in few bars, Bourbon is often substituted to get the Holland Gin heavier effect. Holland Gin is also "malty" so Scotch would also be a good substitute."

Nutrition:

One serving of Colonel Collins contains 201 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
13.24% alc./vol. (13.24° proof)
19.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Myxo Gastrid

18th October 2022 at 23:52

great with rye too! didn't see that variant on the list

Phil Mackenzie

14th August 2022 at 18:38

Excellent - my favourite Collins to-date, and I've tried quite a few over this long hot summer. I used Bullet Frontier Bourbon, and like in my whiskey sour I added two dashes of Regan's Orange Bitters No 6. Really recommend this on a warm evening.