This tom collins recipe is a tall gin sour lengthened with soda. It is not a gin and tonic, which has no lemon and no sugar.
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Tom Collins
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 1 drink 1x
Description
Tom Collins. From Olivia.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 ounces (60ml) gin
- 1 ounce (30ml) lemon juice
- 3/4 ounce (22ml) simple syrup
- cold soda water
- ice
- lemon wheel
Instructions
- Shake gin, lemon juice, and syrup with ice.
- Strain into an ice-filled collins glass.
- Top with soda and add a lemon wheel.
Notes
Shake the gin and lemon before the soda goes in. Soda in the shaker goes flat.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Cocktail
- Method: No-cook
- Cuisine: American
Syrup
Equal parts sugar and water, dissolved. A spoon of sugar muddled in the glass also works.
Lemon
Fresh. Bottled juice tastes flat.
Soda
A short pour. The drink should still taste like gin.
Glass
A collins glass, taller than a highball.
Nutrition (estimated)
About 320 calories per serving. Estimate only, not a lab test.
FAQ
Old Tom gin?
That is the sweeter gin this drink was named for. London dry works if the syrup stays.
No shaker
Stir hard in the glass, then add soda.
Pitcher
Mix gin, lemon, and syrup. Add soda in the glass.
Sweet
Cut the syrup to 1/2 ounce if the lemon is mild.