Have you ever wanted to meet John Collins?
The guy who created the iconic John Collins cocktail?
Well, you can't cause he's dead.
However, he did create that iconic cocktail that looks sort of like this.
Okay.
Not really like this, because this is a modern day version of the John Collins.
Now he talk about the John Collins
we kind of...
the modern collins, we have to understand where it came from.
So what we're going to do is hop back in our time machine and go
back to the early 18 hundreds.
Now the original John Collins takes its name from the headwaiter from
Limmers Old House on Conduit Street in Mayfair from 1790 to 1815.
And at that time it was created with Genevre Gin so that was a sweeter
version of Gin So its, definitely sweeter than an Old Tom Gin.
When Old Tom Gin came out, you started to get that change to the Tom gin.
And you got what was known as a Tom Collins, at that point, it's
taken across to the U S around 1850.
And in that timeframe, you had this incredible joke where people were telling
people to go look for Tom Collins, because he was saying bad things about them.
So that individual would run to the bar.
Start yelling at people and they'd eventually go, Hey, here's a drink.
It's just a joke.
Now.
Apparently not many people were actually killed during that, but that did happen..
And I digress because I'm making a modern day version of the John Collins.
Now, when you look at the modern day version, we started using
American bourbon whiskey, right?
So what you get is a different, deeper flavor with your caramel notes, your
spiciness, your pepperiness, and all of that blended together with your lemon
your sugar and your soda water for something that is absolutely fantastic.
And they are blended so well together.
But before we get into making this, let's talk about the ingredients.
Now, the first thing we're going to use is fresh lemon juice go with fresh.
Whenever you can, if not go with what you can get next, you're going to get.
Club soda.
So basically club soda is soda, water, or self-serve, it's just bubbly water,
depending on what you want to call it.
No real flavor to it.
Next we're going to.
A little bit of simple syrup, and this is a one-to-one simple syrup, meaning
one part water, one part sugar, but our base spirit is going to be a bourbon
and we're using Woodford Reserve here.
It's 45.2%.
ABV and it's fantastic.
Now, there are a couple of different ways that you can make this cocktail.
You can shake it and your tin, you could throw it into a string, glass
and Sturt and then have to report, but all of that takes extra work.
So what we're going to do is the easy way to make this.
We're going to build it directly in the glass because it's Friday
afternoon and you don't want to work very hard just to build your drink
so you can enjoy your evening off.
So grab your glass of choice.
In this case, I'm using a nice tall highball glass.
And what we're going to do is we're going to add some ice to this.
One ounce or 30 milliliters, Lemon Juice, half an ounce, 15 milliliters,
Simple Syrup, one and a half ounces or 45 milliliters of Bourbon.
Oh yeah.
Look at that.
Now that we've done that what we're going to do is we're actually
going to stir this in the glass.
So grab your Barspoon.
However, for a neat trick, if you're not very good with stringing and having a
hard time, getting your spoon in there, use the teardrop end of your spoon.
Like so.
Who?
Yeah.
Look at that.
Oh yeah.
Perfect.
Now what we're going to do, because it's diluted a little bit.
If we're going to add one more piece of ice, just to fill it up,
like, so, and next, you're going to grab your soda, water, or seltzer
water, whatever you want to call it.
And we're just going to top this off.
So what we'll do is just pop it like.
And here we go.
Look at that gorgeous.
Now what we're going to do is we're going to garnish this with a piece of orange
and American cherry, like so fantastic.
And there you have a modern day, John Collins.
If you think that I should use a different type of bourbon or different
types of seltzer, or maybe something that's flavored to change things up.
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