Name: First Post
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Gentian liqueur; 30 ml Lime juice; 22.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2 dash Absinthe; Top up with Soda (club soda) water

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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Suze gentian liqueur
1 oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
³⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US)
2 dash	La Fee Parisienne absinthe
Top up with	Thomas Henry Soda Water

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Garnish: Lime wedge

How to make:

SHAKE first 5 ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass (preferably over a spear of ice). TOP with soda.

Strength & taste guide:

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

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Review:

Pale green in colour with a refreshing bitter/sour sweet profile.

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History:

This cocktail was published in an article called The Golden Cocktail Mile for the release of the 2013 World's End film comic science fiction film. It is named after the first pub on the bar crawl that Simon Peg and co. embark on in the film.

Created in 2013 by Alastair Walker, then at The Everleigh in Melbourne, Australia.

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Nutrition:

One serving of First Post contains 206 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
14.28% alc./vol. (14.28° proof)
16.2 grams of pure alcohol

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