Rangpur Gimlet

Thanks to the British, each July we have a patriotic excuse to get loaded and shoot off Roman candles in heavily populate areas. Also thanks to the British, we have a cocktail that will have you sailing smoothly from Independence Day’s pyrotechnic debauchery straight through Labor Day.

Tanqueray purveyors of the gin your grandpa was pouring while your dad was still sipping apple juice recently introduced a variant called Tanqueray Rangpur. It’s made with exotic Rangpur limes, which look like mandarins but taste like limes. As it turns out, Tanqueray Rangpur makes a mean gin gimlet: a thirstquencher pioneered by the British Royal Navy, whose sailors had the good sense to combine their gin and lime rations to ward off scurvy, of course. Our Founding Fathers dubbed the colonizers limeys, since the English navy was too cheap to dole out pricier lemons, but as a result of that continental stinginess we ended up with a bitchin’ Bill of Rights and a delicious beverage. The citrus in Tanqueray Rangpur sets off the gin’s piney flavor while cooling its bite, and adding Rose’s lime juice makes for a sweet, tart summer standard. Feel free to raise a gimlet to the limeys, without whom we couldn’t take a day off to blow shit up.

Rangpur Gimlet
2 Ounces Tanqueray Rangpur
Splash of Rose’s lime juice
Wedge of lime
Shake gin and Rose’s with ice, then strain ito a chilled glass. Garnish with lime wedge.