Tom Collins
A gin sour, stretched long with soda.
Ingredients
- 50 ml Gin
- 25 ml Lemons
- 15 ml Sugar syrup
- top Soda water
Method
Shake the first three, strain over ice, top with soda.
- Glass
- Collins
- Ice
- Cubed, filled to the top
- Garnish
- Lemon wheel
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Takes
- About 3 minutes
- Strength
- Light
- Style
- Highball
- Tastes
- citrus-forward, sweetened and long and refreshing
If you're missing something
- Sugar syrup → Agave syrup — slightly sweeter, so use a little less
- Sugar syrup → Honey — loosen with warm water first; adds its own flavour
Where it comes from
The name comes from an 1874 hoax, when New Yorkers were wound up into searching bars for a man called Tom Collins who was supposedly slandering them. Jerry Thomas printed a recipe two years later.
About this recipe
Charlie Tyler — Editor, Drinki
Specs cross-checked against standard published recipes and IBA measures.
Specs last checked .