Name: Gimlet (Schumann's recipe)
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 37.5 ml Lime cordial; 22.5 ml Lemon juice

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1 1/4 fl oz

Lime cordial (sweetened lime juice)

3/4 fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Gimlet (Schumann's recipe) contains 153 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
15.15% alc./vol. (30.29° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

History

A riff on the classic Gimlet created in 1983 by the famous bartender and cocktail author Charles Schumann of Munich, Germany. This "Schumann's Gimlet" is one of several Gimlet recipes in his 1995 book American Bar book.

SCHUMANN'S GIMLET (1983)
¾ oz lemon juice
1¼oz Rose's lime juice
2 oz gin
Shake well over ice cubes in a shaker, strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Charles Schumann, 1995

Comments & Discussion

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Thomas Browne Premium Member 4d

I enjoyed this Gimlet. Easy to assemble, tasty, and refreshing. I used Tanqueray as a starter, and wasn't disappointed. The combination has a Gin friendly foundation.

Chris Dimal 3y

Made this with Beefeater gin and my own homemade lime cordial. Really delicious and bracingly tart, but just balanced enough.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 1y

I was just about to say practically the same thing. Used Tanqueray. Did your cordial have citric acid in it? I like how puckering it is, but my eyes are starting to water.

Chris Dimal 43w

To be honest, no. I couldn't bother with it. I just used lime juice and lime oleo saccharum and combined them together.

Myxo Gastrid 3y

need to try this with anything but Rose's

Florian Ruf Premium Member 4y

I made the cocktail with Monin Lime Cordial and had to add a barspoon Sugar Syrup, although my taste is on the dryer side.

Felicia Premium Member 4y

Rose’s in the US 2022 is high fructose corn syrup. Blech. If possible, make your own.

Jim Plante 4y

This is a great drink and very refreshing. I used Beefeaters London Dry Gin, skimped just slightly on the Roses, I prefer dryer drinks in general, but if you like them sweeter, go for it!

Jeff Miller 4y

Tasty and goes down quickly, but I should have trusted my instinct and reduced the lime cordial. I used Tanqueray Rangpur and was hoping to taste gin, but the citruses overpowered it. As Eva S. said, it's more of a Gin-garita.

Eva S. 5y

Found a recipe for homemade lime cordial, so had to give this a try. Really delicious. Simple and tasty. Like a Gin Margarita!

simon kitchen 6y

Having tried this a couple of times, I have tweaked this recipe a bit and go 1 measure of lime juice and try not to let the ice dilute the cocktail too much. I found the Roses made it a fraction too sweet for me, but I didn't want to lose the lime "hit".