| IBA Official Cocktail | |
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| Type | Cocktail |
| Primary alcohol by volume |
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| Served | On the rocks; poured over ice |
| Standard drinkware | Highball glass |
| IBA specified ingredients* |
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A Gin Fizz is the best-known cocktail in the Fizz family. A Gin Fizz contains gin, lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water, served in a highball glass with two ice cubes. Lemon-lime soda can also be used. The drink is similar to a Tom Collins, the difference, contrary to common belief, being that a Tom Collins historically used "Old Tom Gin" (a sweetened version of, and precursor to, London Dry Gin), whereas the kind of gin historically used in a Gin Fizz is unknown.
Simple variations on the gin fizz are
- Silver Fizz — addition of egg white
- Golden Fizz — addition of egg yolk
- Royal Fizz — addition of whole egg
- Diamond Fizz — sparkling wine instead of carbonated water. More commonly known as a French 75
- Green Fizz — addition of a dash of green crème de menthe
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Famous quotes containing the words gin and/or fizz:
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
—Julius J. Epstein (1909–1952)
“In the atom’s fizz and pop we heard possibility
uncorked. Taffeta wraps whispered on davenports.
A new planet bloomed above us; in its light
the stumps of cut pine gleamed like dinner plates.
The world was beginning all over again, fresh and hot;
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—Lynn Emanuel (b. 1949)