Ingredients

  • 8-12 mint leaves
  • 60ml gin
  • 30ml fresh lime juice
  • 15ml Sugar syrup

Process Steps

  1. Add all the ingredients to a shaker and shake
  2. Fine strain into a chilled coupe or martini glass
  3. Garnish with a single mint leaf

The Southside Cocktail is a classy drink served in many different bars around the world. The classic Southside Cocktail recipe combines gin, lime juice, sugar syrup, and mint into a coupe or a martini glass. Other versions alter the Southside’s ingredients a bit, such as the addition of sparkling water or soda water.

The Southside Cocktail origin story has somewhat of a controversial history, with no exact answer as to who invented the drink or where it came from. There are two possible stories which explain the brief history of the hundred-year-old cocktail recipe. The first one states that a gang in Chicago smuggled a strong gin to the Southern side and in order for it to be desirable, it was mixed with lime juice, sugar, and mint. The other story behind the drink’s recipe is more plausible, but it has an additional ingredient. Hugo Enslinn wrote a book containing the Southside cocktail recipe and other drinks in New York, but with soda water, and called it the “Southside Fizz”. The Southside cocktail is recommended for anyone who enjoys drinks with minty, sweet flavours. It is recommended to drink during summer as it is very refreshing.

What are the ingredients for a Southside Cocktail?

Listed below are the ingredients for a Southside cocktail.

  • Mint: Mint is a tender herb with a cool and minty taste..
  • Gin: Gin is a colourless, grain-based alcoholic beverage prepared from distilled or neutral grain spirits and flavoured by juniper berries.
  • Lime juice: Lemon juice is produced from freshly squeezed lime. It is a sweet, acidic, and citrusy smelling substance.
  • Sugar syrup: Sugar syrup is a liquid form of sugar that is commonly known as caramel, this syrup is combined with balanced water to prevent it from returning to its solid form.

1. 8-12 Mint Leaves

To make a Southside cocktail, 8-12 mint leaves are necessary, but this amount can be adjusted based on the bartender's preference. Mint leaves will add depth to the drink’s flavour and aroma. Mint leaves contain a low number of calories.

2. 60ml Gin

One of the major ingredients in the Southside cocktail is gin. It has a strong citrus smell and a pine-like flavour and packs a powerful punch into the drink. It contains around 40% alcohol by volume and 149 calories.

3. 30ml Fresh Lime Juice

One of the ingredients that adds to the citrusy sour taste of the Southside cocktail drink is fresh lime juice. The lime’s sweetness will contrast with the Gin’s bitterness, and the acidity gives the gin more flavour depth. Fresh lemon juice with a volume of 30mL has 6 calories.

4. 15ml Sugar Syrup

In order to make the Southside cocktail drink, sugar syrup is essential. This will provide sweetness to the cocktail, which will balance out the sharpness of the gin for a more refreshing drink. Sugar syrup typically has a calorie count of 93.

How to make a Southside Cocktail?

Preparing a Southside Cocktail has never been easier thanks to this recipe, don't miss it and make the most out of your cocktail!

  •  Add all the ingredients into a shaker and shake.
  •  Fine strain into a chilled coupe or martini glass.
  •  Garnish with a single mint leaf.

1. Add all the ingredients into a shaker and shake.

Combine the lime juice, gin, sugar syrup, and the preferred number of mint leaves into the shaker with ice and shake. Shaking is necessary for all the ingredients to be mixed properly and allows the mint leaves to be crushed enough to achieve the minty flavour.

2. Fine strain into a chilled coupe or martini glass.

Use a fine strainer to separate the unwanted substances into the drink, especially the mint leaves residue, while pouring it into the coupe or martini glass.

3. Garnish with a single mint leaf.

To finish it off, dip a single mint leaf on the side of the rim for aesthetic purposes. Later this will add even more of a minty taste to the drink.

What nutritional benefit can you get from drinking a Southside cocktail?

There are no nutritional benefits from drinking a Southside cocktail. It has an alcohol content of 20.81% by volume, with an amount of 183 calories.  

What are the different variations of Southside Cocktail?

There are multiple variations of the classic Southside cocktail drink, including Blueberry Southside, Appletini, Southside Martini, and Raspberry Southside. To variate a classic Southside Cocktail drink, the bartender should add some ingredients. The procedure of making the variation of the Southside cocktail is just the same as making the classic one. But to make it a Southside Fizz, include soda or sparkling water to alter the drink’s theme and intensity. Some similar cocktails to the classic Southside cocktail are Southside Fizz, Southside Royale, and the Gin Basil Smash cocktail.

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