Gin · Shake · Rocks · 5 min
Fitzgerald
A gin sour with a couple of dashes of Angostura, no egg. Dale DeGroff made it in the 1990s, and it is named after F. Scott Fitzgerald.
What's in it
- 45ml (1½ oz) Gin
- 22.5ml (¾ oz) Lemon juice
- 22.5ml (¾ oz) Sugar syrup
- 2 dashes Aromatic bitters
- 1 Lemon wheel optional
How to make it
- Fill a rocks glass with ice.
- Shake the gin, lemon juice, sugar syrup and bitters hard with ice.
- Strain over the fresh ice and garnish with a lemon wheel.
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What cocktail can I make?Where it came from
DeGroff improvised it during a busy shift at the Rainbow Room's Promenade Bar in the early 1990s, for a customer who had tired of his usual summer gin and tonic. He first called his bitters-laced gin sour the Gin Thing. A guest who read fiction for The New Yorker asked for a classier name and, since the Hemingway Daiquiri was already on the menu, suggested the Fitzgerald so that F. Scott Fitzgerald would be represented too.
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