# London dry gin

A dry distilled gin whose flavour comes entirely from natural botanicals distilled together, with no colour and virtually no sweetening.

Parent category: [Dry gin](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/dry-gin.md)

Alcohol: 40% ABV

## Cocktails

- [Army & Navy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/army-and-navy.md): Orgeat replaces plain sugar in this gin sour, bringing almond richness and orange-flower perfume into a sharply structured, bitters-seasoned drink.
- [Blackthorn (English)](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/blackthorn-english.md): London dry gin and sloe gin turn a split-vermouth Martini into a dark-fruited, bitters-seasoned counterpart to the Irish Blackthorn.
- [Breakfast Martini](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/breakfast-martini.md): Fine-cut orange marmalade gives a taut gin sour fragrant peel oils, pithy bitterness, and a texture that no orange liqueur alone can supply.
- [Bronx](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bronx.md): A bright, shaken Perfect Martini relative in which fresh orange gives gin and split vermouth a softer, juicy shape.
- [Claridge Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/claridge-cocktail.md): Gin and dry vermouth share the frame with apricot brandy and Cointreau in Léon’s 1922 Parisian fruit-Martini branch.
- [Delmonico No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/delmonico-no-1.md): Cognac gives a Perfect Martini's split vermouth a small measure of vinous weight while Angostura adds spice, preserving the drink's useful closeness to its better-known relation.
- [Eeyore’s Requiem](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/eeyores-requiem.md): Toby Maloney's uncompromising Violet Hour aperitivo layers Campari with two amaros, blanc vermouth, gin, and orange bitters.
- [Floradora](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/floradora.md): Raspberry, lime, and London dry gin lengthened with ginger ale make this Edwardian highball bright, fragrant, and far drier than its theatrical pink suggests.
- [Gin & Tonic](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gin-and-tonic.md): Cold tonic lengthens London dry gin without hiding it, joining juniper and citrus oils to quinine bitterness in a spare, exact highball.
- [Gin Alexander](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gin-alexander.md): Equal London dry gin, white cacao, and heavy cream recover the pale 1914 Alexander before brandy became the family’s dominant base.
- [Gin Daisy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gin-daisy.md): This tall 1902-style Daisy brightens London dry gin with lime and grenadine, then opens the vivid pink sour over cracked ice with soda.
- [Golden Dawn](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/golden-dawn.md): Equal gin, Calvados, apricot, and orange sit above a vivid sunken measure of grenadine in T. Buttery’s layered British classic.
- [Hanky Panky](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/hanky-panky.md): A gin-and-sweet-vermouth cocktail sharpened by a bitter, herbal measure of Fernet.
- [Hearst Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/hearst-cocktail.md): An equal-parts sweet Martini where aromatic and orange bitters put a dark, spiced edge around dry gin and fresh Italian-style vermouth.
- [Humuhumunukunukuapua'a](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/humuhumunukunukuapua-a.md): Gin, pineapple, lemon, orgeat, and Peychaud's make Marcovaldo Dionysos's vivid modern tiki sour.
- [London Buck](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/london-buck.md): Also known as the Gin Buck, this crisp London dry gin, lemon, and ginger-ale highball depends on cold, spice, and carbonation.
- [London Calling](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/london-calling.md): Fino sherry draws a saline, almond-dry line through this bright gin sour, with orange bitters and grapefruit peel extending its citrus without adding sweetness.
- [London Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/london-cocktail.md): London dry gin is subtly sweetened and sharpened with absinthe, orange bitters, lemon oils, and an olive.
- [Martinez](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/martinez.md): An equal-parts gin-and-sweet-vermouth cocktail accented with maraschino and orange bitters.
- [Pegu Club](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pegu-club.md): Gin, dry orange curaçao, fresh lime, and two kinds of bitters make this Rangoon club classic both a taut sour and an aromatic cocktail.
- [Perfect Martini](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/perfect-martini.md): A rounded Martini splitting its vermouth evenly between dry and sweet styles, with orange bitters for aromatic lift.
- [Pink Lady](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pink-lady.md): Gin and bonded apple brandy give this pink classic real force beneath tart lime, pomegranate, and a fine egg-white foam.
- [Poet's Dream](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/poets-dream.md): Mere dashes of Bénédictine and orange bitters perfume a lean two-to-one gin Martini in the restrained 1937 Café Royal form.
- [Puritan](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/puritan.md): A dry, herbal Martini variation in which Yellow Chartreuse rounds gin and vermouth without taking over.
- [Red Snapper](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/red-snapper.md): Gin botanicals drive this later savoury Bloody Mary branch through tomato, lemon, pepper, celery, and measured vinegar heat.
- [Remember the Alimony](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/remember-the-alimony.md): Fino and Cynar outweigh the gin in this savoury, low-proof Negroni relation, replacing sweet vermouth and Campari with salt, earth, and restrained bitterness.
- [Samoan Fog Cutter](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/samoan-fog-cutter.md): Trader Vic's later Samoan revision gives rum, Cognac, and gin an unusually broad tropical base before a sweet sherry float turns the citrus-and-orgeat drink savoury at the surface.
- [Sharpie Mustache](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sharpie-mustache.md): An equal-parts union of rye, gin, amaro, and quinquina with deep citrus and baking-spice character.
- [Silver Bullet](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/silver-bullet.md): London dry gin and lemon make a severe sour frame for kümmel’s clear, sweet caraway spice.
- [Southside](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/southside.md): A clean gin sour made vivid and cooling with fresh lime and mint.
- [The Joy Division](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/the-joy-division.md): A dry gin Martini brightened with Cointreau and a restrained measure of absinthe.
- [Waterproof Watch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/waterproof-watch.md): Gin, Montenegro, Aperol, and pimento bitters make Sother Teague's softer, warmly spiced Negroni variation.
- [White Cargo](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/white-cargo.md): Equal measures of London dry gin and vanilla ice cream become a stark, silky Savoy-era dessert drink with no ice, garnish, or disguise.

## References

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