No. 26Vodka & Gin Pickle Cocktails
Pickle Collins
Tall, fizzy and refreshingly briny.
The Pickle Collins is a tall, fizzy gin sour: gin, fresh lemon, simple syrup and dill pickle brine shaken, then lengthened with soda water over ice. It is bright, lemony and lightly salty: the classic sweet-sour Collins, where the Pickle Vodka Soda is bone-dry and the Pickle Cucumber Cooler leans on cucumber and lime.
21+Updated
Brine2/52 of 5
HeatNonenone
StrengthMedium
- Glass
- Collins glass
- Method
- Shaken
- Time
- 3 min
- Makes
- 1 drink
Ingredients
Make it for
Units
Amounts for 1, in ounces.
- 2 oz gin
- ¾ oz fresh lemon juice
- ¾ oz simple syrup (1:1 sugar and water)
- ½ oz dill pickle brine
- 3 oz soda water (chilled)
- 1 lemon wheel (for garnish)
- 1 dill pickle spear (for garnish)
- Glass
- Collins glass
- Garnish
- lemon wheel and pickle spear
How to make it
- Add the gin, lemon juice, simple syrup and pickle brine to a shaker.
- Fill the shaker with ice and shake for 10 seconds.
- Strain into an ice-filled collins glass.
- Top with the soda water and stir once.
- Garnish with a lemon wheel and a pickle spear.
Bar tips
- Shake everything except the soda, then top so the bubbles stay lively.
- Old Tom gin makes a rounder, slightly sweeter Collins if you have a bottle.
Make it your own
- Use vodka for a Pickle Vodka Collins.
Drink responsibly. This one is for adults of legal drinking age. Want it without the booze? The zero-proof drinks are just as briny.
Full recipe: dillin.org/recipes/pickle-collins
