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Singapore Sling

Gin with cherry liqueur, Bénédictine, pineapple, lime, grenadine and bitters. Long and fruity, and far more complex than its colour suggests.

Base: Gin
Glass: Sling glass
Method: Shake
Strength: 40% ABV

Ingredients

30 mlGin1 swap
Any London dry ginhigh
Depends on the brand’s botanicals
15 mlCherry Sangue Morlacco
7.5 mlCointreau1 swap
Triple sec or curaçaomedium
Slightly sweeter/less crisp
7.5 mlDOM Bénédictine
120 mlFresh Pineapple Juice
15 mlFresh Lime Juice1 swap
Fresh lemon juicemedium
Slightly less floral, more tart
10 mlGrenadine Syrup
1 dashA dash of Angostura bitters

How to make

Technique

Shake · 10–15s

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

Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes.
Shake well.
Strain into Hurricane glass.

Serve

Glass

Sling glassAlso fine: Hurricane glass, Highball glass

Garnish

Garnish with pineapple and maraschino cherry.Spear them together; separately they both sink.

Taste & nutrition

40%ABV

226kcal

8.08Drinks

StrengthSpirit-forward

Sweet to dryDry

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

Good to know

Use freshly squeezed juice — bottled tastes flat.

History

Yearc. 1915

PlaceSingapore

Created byNgiam Tong Boon (Raffles Hotel)

Ngiam Tong Boon is credited with creating the Singapore Sling around 1915 at the Long Bar of Raffles Hotel. This tropical gin sling blends cherry brandy, pineapple, citrus and liqueurs into a rosy, fruity long drink. It became a symbol of colonial-era Southeast Asian glamour. The exact original recipe has been much debated and reconstructed over the years.

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