Pegu Club
A gin cocktail perfect for summer
- Method
- Shaken
- Style
- Classic
- Glass
- Nick and Nora
- Time
- 5 min
Ingredients
- 45mlGinLondon Dry or Plymouth styles work great
No Gin? London Dry Gin — juniper forward, and what these recipes assume if you have not got a preference · Old Tom Gin — sweeter and rounder, the older style · Navy Strength Gin — a lot stronger, so save it for a clear afternoon
- 22.5mlDry Curaçao
No Dry Curaçao? Triple Sec — sweeter and simpler — use a touch less, and expect less orange-peel bitterness
- 22.5mlLime Juicefreshly squeezed
- 2 dashesAngostura
No Angostura? Old Fashioned Bitters — close to Ango, with the same spicy notes — just not the standard bottle
Make it well
Shaken, properly.
Add all the ingredients to your
Add ice and for 10-12 seconds
into a chilled glass
On the palate
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.
Where it came from
The Pegu Club was created in a British social club in Rangoon, in what was then Burma and is Yangon in Myanmar today. Since its creation, this cocktail has travelled around the world and exploded in popularity. Like many cocktails, this drink gets its name from the club that created it. The Pegu Club 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.
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The bartender’s note
One drink, one story, one bottle worth buying.
Thursday evening, so you have time to shop. No more than that.