The TRUE story of the Singapore Sling

While the Raffles Hotel in Singapore claims to be the birthplace of the Singapore Sling we know of today, cocktail historian David Wondrich found evidence of other similar gin Slings in Singapore prior to 1915 when the Raffles Hotel claimed to have invented the drink.

The Sling is historically a very simple cocktail with recipes often with only spirit, sugar, and nutmeg and may have been named after the idea of "slinging one back." The slings we think of today are far more complicated often with various juices and liqueurs. The Gin Sling itself was incredibly popular during the early 1900s and references can be found throughout print during the time, but the unique combination of gin, cherry herring, and Benedictine appears to be an evolution of the drink that happened in Singapore in the early 1900s and the popularity of the drink today can be traced to the Raffles Hotel who reformulated the drink in the 1970s to make the drink we know today.

Learn more about the Singapore Sling here: https://imbibemagazine.com/origins-of...

The recipe I'm sharing today is the reformulated version from the 1970s, the one that became popular. The Raffles Hotel has never claimed to know the exact version from 1915, and this recreated recipe was supposedly re-created from first-hand accounts. However, this seems to be one more closely associated with the preferences of drinkers we see in the 1970s and 1980s. While this recipe may be important to know and share, there doesn't seem to be much reverence even from The Raffles Hotel who have changed its ingredients in recent years to make a drink to be more aligned with today's preferences.

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📃 Episode Chapters 📃
00:00 Introduction and History
02:52 Singapore Sling Ingredients List
03:03 Making the Singapore Sling
04:42 Singapore Sling Recipe Card
04:53 Drinking the Singapore Sling

📖 Recipe(s) 📖
Singapore Sling
From the Raffles Hotel by Ngiam Tong Boon
1 dash angostura bitters
¼ oz lime juice 7.5 ml)
4 oz pineapple juice (120 ml)
⅓ oz grenadine (10 ml)
¼ oz Cointreau (7.5 ml)
¼ oz Benedictine (7.5 ml)
½ oz Cherry Heering (15 ml)
1 oz Gin (30 ml)

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