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South Side
A shaken gin sour with mint, in two published versions.
Go to the recipe ↓The South Side is gin, citrus juice, simple syrup and mint, shaken with ice and double-strained into a chilled glass. Your first choice is the citrus: the IBA version uses lemon and the Punch version uses lime. That choice decides which card you follow tonight.
IBA: lemon, optional egg white
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
See the proportions
Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Chill a cocktail glass.
- Put the London dry gin, fresh lemon juice, simple syrup and mint leaves into a cocktail shaker. If you are using egg white, add it too.
- Add ice and shake well. If you added egg white, shake vigorously.
- Double-strain into the chilled glass.
Garnish Mint sprigs.
- The mint is listed as 5/6 leaves. We read that as five or six leaves.
- Egg white is optional and listed only as a few drops.
Recipe source: International Bartenders Association ↗
Punch (Joaquín Simó): lime, muddled mint
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
See the proportions
Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Chill a coupe or cocktail glass.
- Put the mint leaves and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker and muddle them gently.
- Add the gin, lime juice and orange bitters. Add ice and shake until chilled.
- Double-strain into the chilled glass.
Garnish Mint sprig. Slap it against your hand to release its oils, then set it on the drink.
- The simple syrup is 1:1 sugar to water.
- Mint is given as a range of 6 to 8 leaves.
- Makes one drink. A London-style dry gin is recommended for this version.
Recipe source: PUNCH ↗
Syrup, bitters, egg white and mint
Beyond the citrus, the lemon version uses less syrup than juice and puts everything into the shaker at once. It is the only one that offers egg white, which calls for a more vigorous shake. The lime version uses equal measures of juice and syrup, needs a bottle of orange bitters, and starts by gently muddling the mint in the syrup before anything else goes in.