Army & Navy

Name: Army & Navy
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml London Dry Gin; 20 ml Fresh Lemon Juice; 15 ml Orgeat (Almond) Syrup; Angostura Bitters

Associated with the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.

Ingredients

London Dry Gin60 ml

Fresh Lemon Juice20 ml

Orgeat (Almond) Syrup15 ml

Angostura Bitters

Glassware

Coupe glass

Chilled.

Method

1
Chill a coupe glass.
2
Combine the gin, lemon juice and orgeat in a shaker.
3
Add a dash of Angostura bitters.
4
Add ice and shake hard for 12 seconds.
5
Fine-strain into the chilled coupe and serve.

From the Bartender

Associated with the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C. and popularised by David Embury's 1948 Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, though Embury himself was rude about it. The orgeat is doing all the work — a thin, artificial one will flatten the drink completely.

Rating

Be the first to log this drink.

Open the app → tap the cocktail → log a sip.

Try next

Cocktails like this one

London Dry Gin

Fine and Dandy

Bright orange-peel sweetness over a firm juniper spine, lemon doing the cutting, and a whisper of clove and bark from the single dash of bitters.

Maiden's Prayer

London Dry Gin

Maiden's Prayer

Double-citrus and unapologetic about it — orange sweetness carried by the liqueur, lemon keeping it dry, botanicals surfacing late.

Cloister

London Dry Gin

Cloister

Honey and saffron-like herbs from the Chartreuse riding over pithy grapefruit, with the gin's juniper providing structure and a long, warming herbal finish.

Gin

Aviation

Delicately floral and citrusy with the perfumed essence of violette dancing above bright lemon tartness, this elegant cocktail offers a subtly sweet, botanical complexity that finishes dry and refreshingly light with hints of cherry almond from the maraschino.

Make this from your shelf

Scan your bottles, learn what you can pour right now.

My Bar Shelf reads your shelf and shows you every cocktail you can make from what you already own, including Army & Navy.