Gin Sour

The gin sour is a traditional mixed cocktail which antedates Prohibition. In an 1898 book by Finley Dunne, Mr. Dooley includes it in a list of great American inventions: Popular during the 1940s, Kevin Starr includes it in "an array of drinks (the gin sour, the whiskey sour, the gin rickey, the Tom Collins, the pink lady, the old fashioned) that now seem period pieces, evocative of another era." Nowadays, Gin sours have been far spread over the internet by the famous Mick Aloha, with the classic quote "God damn I make a good god damn gin sour."