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Tex Collins

Tex Collins

3.5 16 ratings

Ingredients

2 oz Gin
2 barspoon Honey
2 oz Pink grapefruit juice
Top up with Soda water

How to make

Serve in a collins glass

  1. 1 STIR honey with gin in base of shaker to dissolve honey
  2. 2 Add grapefruit juice, SHAKE with ice and strain into ice-filled glass
  3. 3 TOP with soda water.

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History

A tart, dry mixture of gin and grapefruit.

Adapted from a recipe in the 1949 edition of Esquire's Handbook for Hosts. For the full story behind the origins of the Collins and its many variations see our Collins page.