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 'rich' (2:1)

Ingredients

2 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Ketel One Vodka

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Lime cordial (sweetened lime juice)

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lime zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Express lime zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Vodka Gimlet contains 186 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
22.64% alc./vol. (45.28° proof)
23.7 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Philip Cook Premium Member 3w

Enojyed it very much with some fried sauerkraut with ribs

Steven Jepson Premium Member 37w

Tried this after a Gin Gimlet (Difford's) but used Koskenkorva Finnish 60% Vodka so dialled down to 2 shots - also added the Difford's Daiquiri Bitters.
This is so good and a much cleaner taste. The vodka is really good though and kept at freezer temp its beautiful on its own.
Exceptional.

Thomas Burns 40w

I first learned about the Gimlet in Raymond Chandler’s book The Long Goodby. As I recall the recipe was half gin and half Rose’s Lime Juice.

John Hinojos Premium Member 2y

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 Verified User Premium Member 2y

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

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 3y

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 4y

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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Vodka Gimlet

How to make

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Flavour Profile

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