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Pink Gin
This is a cocktail that likes dilution, hence the shot of water in my recipe. And, a spoon full (or ½ spoon) of sugar certainly helps the medicine go...
MiRiNaeJM
13th May at 14:29
Made with just London dry gin and bitters, no garnish. Considering its history, I think building it in an ice-filled old fashioned glass will works.
9th March at 20:44
Had this with just gin and angostura bitters
27th September 2023 at 12:05
Curious story re the titling, as I was introduced to ‘pink gin’ I would say around year 2000 (but hard to recollect exactly) by a bartender at the Australian National University, Canberra. It was a pink G&T as described above. The bartender was an Englishman who had previously worked in some old former colonial outpost such as Singapore or Hong Kong, and recounted his customers rolling up after work to order “a laaarge pink gin”!
10th March 2022 at 00:07
Interesting. I always had it without any sugar. The little drop adds a roundness to it (as one would expect).