May 15-Casino

I was super happy to see this cocktail when I saw the recipe. This is because it uses one of my favourite spirits that is barely used in cocktails outside of the Martinez. This is spirit is Old Tom Gin. If you don’t know what that is it is a barrel aged gin that has a darker colour than regular gin, some might even mistake it for bourbon, but if you taste it, you can tell it’s a gin. The cocktail is called The Casino. This cocktail has a muddy history as there are multiple recipes from multiple bartenders.

This cocktail for all intents and purposes we are using Embury’s recipe which uses both orange juice and bitters. Other than that, there isn’t any reason that this recipe is different from the others.

This cocktail is really all about showing off those barrell flavours of the Old Tom Gin. This is definitely a rarer spirit to use as I mentioned before and I am super gladf to see it used.

Full judging here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LiLCpH0foQWGYKrbNdrOVz427fXmN7uhjpTvzrReVsI/edit?tab=t.0 .