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Served by Sam

IN THE MIX
Sam Kennis from Three Wolves and Flamingos
Tiki Bar serves up some classics.
Time to relax and unwind with a copy of Tropic and some
drinks! Go make yourself a drink before you settle in for
some in-depth reading with this amazing publication. In
the last few installments of Served by Sam, you’ve been
shown how to make shared cocktails for gatherings. In this
edition, I’ll mix up individual drinks. And we’re going with
some old-school classics.

MARTINI
Popular theory suggests it
SOUTHSIDE evolved from a cocktail called
Like most classic cocktails, the the Martinez served sometime WHISKY SOUR
origins of the Southside are subject in the early 1860s at the There’s some controversy
to speculation. It has been proposed Occidental Hotel in San Francisco. surrounding the origins of this
that it gets its name from either Alternatively, the people of cocktail. The oldest historical
the South Side district of Chicago, Martinez say a bartender in their mention of a Whiskey Sour was
Illinois or from the Southside town created the drink. There published in the Wisconsin
Sportsmen’s Club on Long Island. are so many variations to make a newspaper in 1870.
The drink was the preferred martini, but I’m sticking with the
beverage of Al Capone, whose gang way I like to make it.
dominated Chicago’s South Side. Ingredients
This is yet another theory about the 60ml bourbon whisky
creation of the cocktail. Ingredients 15ml sugar syrup
50ml gin or vodka 15ml egg whites
10ml dry vermouth
Ingredients 30ml fresh lemon juice
60ml gin 5ml olive brine Method
20ml lemon Method In a cocktail shaker add all ingredients.
20ml sugar syrup Put ice into your martini glass to chill Put lid on cocktail shaker and shake
4 mint leaves it. Add all ingredients into the mixing hard for 10 seconds. Remove lid, add ice
glass, then add some ice. Stir until your
Method and shake hard again for another 10 to 15
Add all ingredients into a shaker. Add ice, mixing glass becomes cold to touch. seconds. Double strain into a coupe glass.
close lid of shaker. Shake hard for 10-15 Dump your ice out of your martini glass. Garnish with a cherry or lemon peel.
seconds. Double strain into coupe glass Strain your mixing glass contents into
the martini glass. Garnish with either a
and garnish with mint.
lemon peel or olives on a skewer. MORE: threewolves.com.au

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