Episode 228

Featured Cocktail: The Gershwin

This episode’s featured cocktail is The Gershwin. To make it, you’ll need:

• 2 Ounces Gin

• 1/2 Ounce Simple Syrup

• 1/2 Ounce Ginger liqueur (something like Domaine de Canton would work here, or you could sub in a smaller amount of an intense ginger syrup, like the Pratt Standard ginger syrup available on ModernBarCart.com)

• 3/4 Ounce fresh lemon juice

• 2 Drops Rose water

Combine the gin, ginger liqueur, simple syrup, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker with ice, give em a good, hard shake until everything is properly chilled and diluted, then strain into a stemmed cocktail glass, give it a nice spritz of rose water right over the top from an atomizer, and enjoy.

This is a simple, flavorful approach to what a gin sour can look like. It’s the ginger and rose water that do all the heavy lifting in this cocktail, and that’s something you don’t see much of when you go out to cocktail bars these days: simple riffs on classics where one or two small additions make all the difference.

The Gershwin is a fantastic cocktail to play around with as the weather warms up, and you shouldn’t have a hard time grabbing all these ingredients from your local liquor store and market. We hope you’ll tag us on social media @modernbarcart if you make one so that we can raise a digital glass together sometime soon.