134. Favorite Cocktail

My interpretation:
  3 sprigs of mint
  2 oz Gin Lane 1751 London Dry
  5 oz Hansen’s Ginger Ale
  2 T fresh lime juice

Muddle mint with gin and lime juice in bottom of highball glass. Add 2–3 large ice cubes and fill with ginger ale. Serve with straw. — This recipe, a sort of Cooler or minted Buck resembling a larger version of the Clarendon “Cocktail” above, first appears in JM 1916 from an unknown source, though similar to a number of variously named long drinks of the type which continues to be popular with other, especially exotic, base liquors. It is clearly unrelated to the Favourite in the Savoy Cocktail Book. The specification of “imported” ginger ale is curious, and may indicate the spicier ginger beer of, e.g., British, Australian, or Jamaican origin.
 

88. Clarendon Cocktail

 My interpretation:
  2 sprays of fresh mint
  1 T fresh lime juice
  2 oz Castle & Key London Dry Gin
  3 oz Reed’s Ginger Beer, chilled
  1 tsp sugar

In bottom of lowball or Old Fashioned glass mull (muddle) 1 spray of mint with sugar and a little hot water, add lime juice and gin, top up with ginger ale, stir slowly, carefully remove muddled mint and any loose leaves with cocktail fork, garnish with fresh mint sprig; serve. — This recipe is clearly out of place in the Cocktails section, and wants to be called a Clarendon Cooler. However, for the sake of Jack, I have endeavored to present it as a sort of cocktail. An explanation for the origin of the name is wanting; perhaps it is named for the venerable Clarendon Hotel in Quebec.

86. Cincinnati Cocktail

My interpretation:
  4 oz Nashville Brewing Company Helles Lager, chilled
  4 oz Gerolsteiner Sparkling Mineral Water, chilled

Pour Gerolsteiner into a chilled highball glass, pour lager on top slowly so that a little head forms but does not overflow glass. Serve. — I have interpreted this recipe, a charter member of the Jack’s Manual, as a small cocktail-size drink for quick refreshment in overwhelming heat. The portions may be increased to fit the appropriate size for a pint or pilsner glass. I take the name to be humorous, since, clearly, no bitters or sweetener is prescribed (unless one takes the Ginger Ale as the sweetener). To be very correct, it is shoulid be called a Cincinnati Cooler, Beer Cooler, or a Soda (or Ginger Ale) Shandy.