Created in 1915 by bartender Ngiam Tong Boon at the Long Bar in Singapore’s Raffles Hotel, the Singapore Sling was designed as a socially acceptable drink for women in colonial Singapore — it looks like fruit juice but packs a serious punch. The original recipe blended gin, pineapple juice, lime juice, curaçao, and Bénédictine, with grenadine and cherry liqueur lending its signature rosy pink color. Over a century later, the Long Bar still sells 800 to 1,200 Slings daily, accounting for 70% of the bar’s revenue. It’s a piece of cocktail history you can still taste exactly where it was born.
Ingredients
- 1/2 oz grenadine syrup
- 1 oz gin
- sweet and sour mix
- club soda
- 1/2 oz cherry brandy
Instructions
- Pour grenadine into the bottom of a collins glass, and fill with ice.
- Add gin, and almost-fill with equal parts of sweet and sour and chilled soda.
- Top with cherry brandy, and serve unstirred, garnished with a cherry.
Serve In
Collins Glass
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