Classic
Pegu Club
A gin cocktail perfect for summer
Ingredients
- 45mlGinLondon Dry or Plymouth styles work great
- 22.5mlDry Curacao
- 22.5mlLime juicefreshly squeezed
- 2 dashes ofOld Fashioned Bitters
Make it well
Shake
Directions
1. Add all the ingredients to your shaking tin 2. Add ice and shake hard for 10-12 seconds 3. Double strain into a chilled glass
Taste
On the nose we get dry orange with a little hit of the botanicals from the gin. It's peppery and zingy. On tasting it's tart, bright, orangey and limey. A really refreshing drink, perfect for summer BBQs. It's a great introduction to gin and gin cocktails.
Origin
The Pegu Club was created in a British social club outside of Yangon in Burma, or Myanmar today. Since its creation, this cocktail has traveled around the world and exploded in popularity. Like many cocktails, this drink gets its name from the club that created it. The Pegu Club in Burma was a product of colonialism. Following its completion in 1882 it became a popular meeting place for British officials and journalists based in the area. A young newspaperman, by the name of Rudyard Kipling visited the club in 1889. Paul Theroux visited in the 1970s, writing about it in his book The Great Railway Bazaar. Print of this cocktail is most notably seen in Harry Craddock's The Savoy Cocktail Book, printed in 1930.
The bartender’s note