Ingredients

  • 1 ozbourbon
  • 1 ozgin
  • ½ ozfresh lime juice
  • 2 dashesAngostura bitters
  • 4 ozginger beer(to top)
  • 🍋mint sprig and orange slice(garnish)

🔧 Tools

citrus juicerjiggershakerstrainer

Instructions

  1. Add ice and shake briefly.
  2. Combine bourbon and gin and lime juice and bitters in a shaker.
  3. Garnish with a mint sprig and orange slice.
  4. Strain into a collins glass filled with ice.
  5. Top with ginger beer.

📜 History

Joe Scialom created this drink at Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel in 1942 as a hangover cure for British soldiers fighting in the North African campaign against Rommel's forces. The original recipe combined gin with Cypriot brandy, though bourbon became a common American substitution where it was more available. Jeff Beachbum Berry helped revive interest in this unusual split-base highball after researching Scialom's original handwritten recipe with his daughter Collette.

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