Lemony Strawberry Gin Fizz

This post features a gifted bottle of Feather & Folly Gin and is intended for a 21+ audience only.

This foamy, sweet-tart drink is modeled after the infamous Ramos Gin Fizz…if you’ve been around for awhile you know that the RGF has been my home bartending nemesis for years. Why you ask? Well, to begin with, legend has it that the original (read more about it here) needed to be shaken for 12 minutes and required the shaker to be passed off to multiple bartenders to achieve that long of shake. Gawd I’m a sucker for a drink that has a legend. But anyways—it’s that long AF shake that gives this drink its gloriously fluffy and unique consistency. For all intents and purposes, that foamy head is supposed to be so substantial and architectural that it extrudes a good inch or two above the lip of the glass.

Alas, alas! my foamy heads don’t extrude quite like that. I said what I said.

But at the end of the day, it just really isn’t size that matters, ok?? So for sure shake the living shit out of this drink for as long as you can manage, but don’t be hard on yourself if you gas out after like 30 seconds. You’re doing great!

And can we all just have a moment to appreciate just how tasty this drink looks (and is)? It makes me nostalgic and I don’t know why—maybe it’s just that it looks like an old timey soda fountain concoction, like I just want to sit on a spinny stool and kick my heels while I drink it through a striped straw (or polka dotted, as it were). Maybe it’s something from my childhood. Or a past life. I don’t know, but I just love how they look.

Recently, the folks at Monson Ranch Distillers sent me such an enjoyable Feather & Folly Gin gift package that included, amongst other goodies, this fabulous bottle of gin. Now you all know I am a sucker for branding and I was like pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease be a delicious, delicious gin because this packaging/branding is just bewitching. Spoiler alert: it is a delicious, delicious gin. Feather & Folly’s recipe is copper pot-distilled in Washington state from their estate-grown cabernet sauvignon grapes (Goose Ridge Estate Winery) and then infused with a blend of proprietary botanicals including local juniper berries. It’s all done with such a lovely reverence towards the land and ecosystems in which they’re entwined.

Plus, it’s literally called feather and folly and I just feel like the brand synergy here might make me combust.

But I digress. Let’s make a frothy, Ramos Gin Fizz-adjacent cocktail.

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Lemony Strawberry Gin Fizz

MAKES ONE SERVING

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INGREDIENTS

• 2 oz. gin

• 1 oz. fresh lemon juice

• 1 oz. Strawberry Lemon Zest Syrup

  • 1.5 cups hulled, chopped strawberries

  • 1 cup granulated sugar

  • 1 cup water

  • zest of one lemon

  • juice of aforementioned lemon

• 1 dash orange blossom water

• 1/2 oz. heavy cream

• 1 medium egg white

• Approx. 2 oz. dry sparkling rosé to top

• 1/2 a strawberry and pinch of lemon zest for garnish

INSTRUCTIONS TO MAKE SYRUP

Combine strawberries, sugar, water, lemon zest, and lemon juice in a small pot and bring to a boil over medium high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer mixture for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and strain into an airtight container and store in fridge for up to 2 weeks.

INSTRUCTIONS TO MAKE COCKTAIL

In a cocktail shaker, combine gin, lemon juice, syrup, orange blossom water, heavy cream, and egg white and shake vigorously for 30 seconds to a minute.

Add ice to shaker and shake until chilled.

Strain mixture into an 8 oz. Collins glass, and top with about an ounce of sparkling rosé. Let that sit and foam for about a minute, then top with another ounce or so of rosé. Garnish, add a straw, and serve.

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Cheers to difficult and tasty drinks!

This post features a gifted bottle of Feather & Folly Gin and is intended for a 21+ audience only.

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