Name: Vodka Gimlet
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 75 ml Vodka; 7.5 ml Lime cordial; 5 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Lime juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1)

Vodka Gimlet
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 ¹⁄₂ oz	Ketel One Vodka
¹⁄₄ oz	Lime cordial (sweetened lime juice)
¹⁄₆ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lime zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Express lime zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Dry grainy vodka, delicately flavoured and softened by subtly sweetened lemon and lime juice.

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History:

A vodka-based riff on the classic gin-based Gimlet. Recipe by yours truly, London, England.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Vodka Gimlet contains 186 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
22.64% alc./vol. (22.64° proof)
22.1 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos

13th June 2024 at 01:04

Love both types of gimlets. My family was more into consuming vodka than gin, so many gin recipes were converted into vodka. This was perfect. Right amount of sweet to sour.
As gin has the herbal flavours, wonder if this may benefit with a few drops of a bitter to add more flavours? Thinking maybe Difford's Daiquiri bitters?

Simon Difford

13th June 2024 at 15:44

Good call, John. The pineapple and mint flavours and added bitterness from drops of Daiquiri Bitters would add complexity.

G. M. Genovese

14th February 2023 at 19:35

I was told years and years ago to remember the recipe for Gimlet as having gin in it: GIM-let, GIN; get it?... I whittled down this recipe to: 75 ml vodka (Ketel One), 15 ml lime juice, 7.5 ml 2:1 cane simple, and it was good, but begging for more character... Next time I try this, I'll definitely use a great lime cordial and probably also do the 50:50 as well with lemon and lime too, because I've tried a Ramos Fizz with just lime and just lemon and the combo is much more pleasing. So it goes.

David Hoyle

27th April 2022 at 16:17

I first heard mention of this drink during lockdowns 2020-21 when re-watching the HBO black comedy "Six Feet Under": a protagonist, David Fisher, consumes about five of them at a cinema bar, after he has walked out of the screening which has raised too many ghosts... In the show he merely asks for another "Gimlet"... This is one cocktail I have come back to time and again for a quick "hit" (as needed) and I really like its laconic and acerbic qualities combined with distinguished lemon and lime.

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