The gin fizz is a cocktail made with gin, lemon juice, sugar, and soda, traditionally served in an 8oz highball glass. The Tom Collins is a similar drink made with Old Tom Gin. The Ramos gin fizz adds cream, egg whites, and orange blossom water. Other variations include the golden and silver gin.
A gin fizz is a type of cocktail that is made with lemon juice, sugar, soda, and gin. It wasn’t usually served over ice. The cocktail was a variation of a gin sour and became popular as carbonated water became more widely available. Unlike modern canned soda, the soda used in gin gins was created while the drink was being prepared using a soda siphon.
Traditionally, a gin fizz was served in an 8oz highball glass, which distinguished it from a Tom Collins, which was served in a larger 12oz Collins glass. A Tom Collins was also usually made with a special brand of gin, known as Old Tom Gin, which was sweeter than plain gin. The two drinks have become similar as Old Tom gin became rarer in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and many bars and restaurants simply use regular gin for both a fizzy and a Tom Collins.
Many bars also serve drinks in Collins glasses rather than the smaller highball glasses. Drinks may also be served over ice in contemporary times and the sugar and lemon juice could be replaced with a pre-prepared sour mix. Fresh carbonated water is also a rarity in modern times.
A variant of the gin fizz is the ramos gin fizz – a cocktail first created in the late 19th century at Meyer’s Restaurant in New Orleans. Ramos gin fizz adds cream, egg whites and orange blossom water to the traditional gin fizz recipe. This recipe may also contain vanilla, but that ingredient is disputed. The addition of cream and egg white makes the drink a popular choice for brunch and as a hangover cure.
Traditionally, Ramos fizz is mixed in a shaker and is shaken for a long time to mix the ingredients completely. When the drink was made at Meyer’s Restaurant, it may have been passed among the patrons of the bar, who shook it for as long as they could stand. A normal gin gin is not shaken.
Other variations of the traditional gin include the golden and the silver gin. A gold bubbly has an egg yolk while a silver bubbly contains an egg white. Generally, a fizz made with a whole egg is known as a real fizz. Adding the cream liqueur turns the cocktail into a green light.
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