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Gin Fizz

Gin, lemon and sugar shaken, then topped with soda. Tall, tangy, and about as easy as a classic gets.

Base: Gin
Glass: Highball glass
Method: Shake
Strength: 7.3% ABV

Ingredients

45 mlGin1 swap
Any London dry ginhigh
Depends on the brand’s botanicals
30 mlFresh Lemon Juice1 swap
Fresh lime juicemedium
A touch sharper
10 mlSimple Syrup1 swap
Sugar syrup or agavehigh
Little change
splashSoda Water

How to make

Technique

Shake · 10–15s

Shaking chills the drink fast while adding dilution and a light texture.

Shake all ingredients with ice except soda water.
Pour into thin tall Tumbler glass , top with a splash soda water, and serve without ice.

Serve

Glass

Highball glassAlso fine: Collins glass, Tall tumbler

Garnish

Garnish with lemon slice, optional lemon zest.Slice for the look, zest if you want the aroma as well.

optional

Taste & nutrition

7.3%ABV

163kcal

0.61Drinks

StrengthLight

Sweet to dryDry

Estimated from ingredient amounts and assumed ABVs — not a lab measurement.

Good to know

Use freshly squeezed juice — bottled tastes flat.
Add the fizzy mixer last so it keeps its bubbles.

History

Year1888

PlaceUSA (New Orleans)

Created byPublished by Jerry Thomas

The Gin Fizz — gin, lemon, sugar and soda — is a 19th-century American classic recorded in Jerry Thomas's bar guides. It belongs to the broader Fizz family, first built around whiskey and brandy before gin became the favourite. Shaken hard and lengthened with soda, it is bright, tart and endlessly refreshing. It set the pattern for the elaborate Ramos Gin Fizz that followed.

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