J. 'Popo' Galsini, 1967 World Championships.
| 1¼ oz · 38 ml | GIN | 40 % |
| ½ oz · 15 ml | PASSION FRUIT SYRUP | |
| ¼ oz · 8 ml | ORGEAT | |
| ¼ oz · 8 ml | FALERNUM | 11 % |
| ½ oz · 15 ml | LEMON JUICE |
1 oz taken as 30 ml in the metric column.
1 oz taken as 30 ml in the metric column.
| Pre-batch | 2.75 oz mixed with ice, 0.53 oz of it pure alcohol |
|---|---|
| Melt | Shaken: +20 % of the pre-batch, +0.55 oz of water |
| Served | 2.75 + 0.55 = 3.3 oz in the glass |
| Strength | 0.53 ÷ 3.3 = 16.0 % ABV as served |
| Ethanol | 0.53 oz × 29.57 ml × 0.789 g/ml = 12 g · about 86 kcal from the alcohol alone |
FROM GIN
The pine note in juniper berries, and the reason gin tastes like a forest. Co-distilled with the spirit during production. Found in actual pine trees, rosemary, basil, and a good London Dry. The "Christmas tree" smell of gin and the smell of a forest floor share a single molecule.
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FROM PASSION FRUIT · the grape candy note
The grape-candy / Welch's-grape-juice aroma. Concord grapes carry it in concentrations no European wine grape (Vitis vinifera) approaches; American Vitis labrusca grapes, native to the northeastern US, hold methyl anthranilate as a signature. The "foxy" note in North American grape juice and artificial grape candy both come from the same molecule. Also used as the standard bird repellent on commercial fruit crops; birds find it intolerable.
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FROM FALERNUM · the clove note
The clove note, a phenylpropanoid that shows up wherever a recipe calls for clove, allspice, or nutmeg, and in rye whiskey through oak-barrel extraction. Anesthetic at high concentration; dentists used clove oil for centuries before lidocaine. The numbing sensation on the tongue from biting a whole clove is eugenol blocking nociceptor signaling at the contact point.
Gin, passion fruit, orgeat, falernum and lemon: a rare gin-based tiki pour. Alpha-pinene sits beneath the 3-mercaptohexanol of passion fruit and the benzaldehyde of orgeat almond. The garnish is the name: a lemon peel spiraled into the planet's rings.
J. 'Popo' Galsini, a Filipino-American bartender at the Kona Kai in Huntington Beach, California, won the International Bartenders Association's 1967 world cocktail championship with this recipe. Galsini chose gin rather than the period-standard rum, inventing a gin-based tropical drink, a category that barely existed at the time. The Saturn was Galsini's answer; the lemon-peel-rings-of-Saturn garnish was his signature flourish.
