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Gin Rickey
Gin, fresh lime and soda with no sugar, so it drinks drier and sharper than a Gin Fizz. It began in 1880s Washington as a bourbon drink for Colonel Joe Rickey, and gin took it over.
What's in it
- 50ml (1⅔ oz) Gin
- 15ml (½ oz) Lime juice
- to top Soda water
- 1 Lime wedge optional
How to make it
- Fill a highball with ice.
- Squeeze in the lime juice and add the gin.
- Top with soda water and stir once.
- Garnish with a lime wedge.
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What cocktail can I make?Where it came from
The Rickey was born at Shoomaker’s, a bar on E Street in Washington, where bartender George A. Williamson is credited with mixing it for Colonel Joseph Kyle Rickey, a Democratic lobbyist. Rickey bought the bar in 1883 and went on to become a major importer of limes, though a 1900 newspaper item quoted him as saying he never drank rickeys himself. The gin version first reached print in Harry Johnson’s 1900 Bartenders’ Manual, and Shoomaker’s closed in 1917 when Washington went dry.
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