Army & Navy
CLASSIC · LONDON DRY GIN

Army & Navy

A gin sour with almond in place of sugar — softer, rounder and more perfumed than it has any right to be with only three ingredients.

Ingredients
Fresh Lemon Juice20 ml
Glassware
Coupe glass
Chilled.
Flavor
BODYSWEETFRUITACIDHEATSMOKEEARTHBITTER

Orange blossom · Juniper · Vanilla · Almond · Lemon

Estimated profile

Method
  1. 1

    Chill a coupe glass.

  2. 2

    Combine the gin, lemon juice and orgeat in a shaker.

  3. 3

    Add a dash of Angostura bitters.

  4. 4

    Add ice and shake hard for 12 seconds.

  5. 5

    Fine-strain into the chilled coupe and serve.

The kit for this drink
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.

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