South Side Cocktail

Name: South Side Cocktail
Ingredients: 10–12 mint leaves; 2 oz gin; ¾ oz fresh-squeezed lime juice; ¾ oz simple syrup

A south side or southside is an alcoholic beverage made with gin, lime juice, simple syrup and mint. A variant, the southside fizz, adds soda water. Its origins are subject to speculation; it has been alternatively proposed that it gets its name from either the South Side district of the city of Chi

Category: Cocktails

Ingredients

10–12 mint leaves
2 oz gin
¾ oz fresh-squeezed lime juice
¾ oz simple syrup

Instructions

Combine all ingredients except mint into a cocktail shaker, fill shaker with ice, and shake well.
Open shaker and add mint, leaving 1 mint leaf around the size of your thumb for garnish.
Close cocktail shaker and roll the mint from one end of the shaker to the other to gently express the mint oils but to not bruise the mint.
Use a hawthorn strainer and a fine mesh strainer to filter the contents into a chilled cocktail coupe.
Garnish with the spare mint leaf you left aside.

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