🍋 Gin Rickey

The no-sugar refresher – lime, gin, and soda

🌿 D.C. Classic

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Fill a highball glass with ice.
  2. Add gin and lime juice.
  3. Top with club soda.
  4. Squeeze the lime half into the drink and drop it in.
  5. Stir briefly.

Pro Tips

🏛️ Washington D.C. Origins

Named after "Colonel Joe" Rickey, a Democratic lobbyist who invented the bourbon version at Shoomaker's Bar in D.C. in the 1880s. The gin version became more popular.

📖 Gatsby's Drink

"We drank in long greedy swallows" – Tom Buchanan describes the Gin Rickey in The Great Gatsby. It was the summer drink of the 1920s.

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