June 13-Gimlet

When I say to use a good gin for this recipe, I mean it. When I say do not order this at a bar you don’t trust completely to use fresh lime juice, I mean it. I will fopr this cocktail recommend a specific gin to use in this cocktail. I would use CItadelle gin.This is a cleaner gin than something like Beefeater, and this is nothing against Beefeater as it’s still my go to martini gin, but Citadelle is just a higher quality. My judges say the same since they never get a gimlet they like more than mine.

I am also begging you with tears in my eyes, use fresh lime juice. Traditionally, Gimalets use Rose’s sweetened lime juice, but it’s so much better with fresh. I actually did something I tried not to do with the list this summer, I did ,my recipe for a gimlet instead of Difford’s recipe. The reason I did that is because I wanted to go traditional for this cocktail. The Gimlet is one of my favourites and I had to do it justice.

Full judging here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l7H55ngtwMsoWFsDpFwxaGD4mwLAeo27bx_6wmXpbI0/edit?tab=t.0