Ingredients
- 1½ ozgin
- ½ ozcrème de framboise
- ¾ ozfresh lemon juice
- ¼ ozsimple syrup
- 2 ozsoda water
- 🍋Fresh raspberries and lemon wheel(garnish)
🔧 Tools
Instructions
- Fill a highball glass with ice cubes.
- Combine gin, crème de framboise, fresh lemon juice, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Shake for 10 to 12 seconds until chilled.
- Strain into the ice-filled highball glass.
- Top with soda water and stir gently once to combine.
- Garnish with fresh raspberries and a lemon wheel on the rim.
📜 History
The Raspberry Collins is a modern variation of the Tom Collins, one of the most enduring long drinks in cocktail history. The Tom Collins itself descends from the gin sling tradition of 19th-century Britain, and was well established in American bars by the 1870s. This variation swaps the plain simple syrup of a classic Collins for crème de framboise, a French raspberry liqueur, adding fruit sweetness and a rosy color while preserving the signature lemon-gin-soda balance. The drink is widely made at home and in craft cocktail bars as a seasonal summer variation.
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