Bennett
Ingredients:
Method:
1. Chill a coupe glass. 2. Fill a shaker with ice, then add the gin, lime juice, simple syrup, and bitters. 3. Shake well until the cocktail is thoroughly chilled. 4. Strain into the chilled glass. 5. Garnish with a lime wheel.
Description:
The Bennett is an early 20th-century gin sour, close in spirit to a Gimlet but drier and spicier in character. According to Difford's Guide, the recipe first appeared in Robert Vermeire's 1922 book Cocktails: How to Mix Them and was later repeated in Cocktails by Jimmy in 1930. This is a small cocktail where a few dashes of bitters do a surprising amount of work. They do not make the drink heavy or overtly spicy on their own, but they pull the flavor together: the gin feels deeper, the lime reads drier, and the sweet-sour balance becomes more precise.