Sing-a-pour sling

A Sing-a-pour Sling has been around for years. In the early days of the British Empire, the social  elite in the Far East would sit around and gossip about days gone by while sipping on this  refreshing, thirst quenching cocktail. So today, skip the gossip and chat on line with your friends while sipping on a wonderful Sing-a-pour Sling cocktail.  You will need a cocktail shaker to make one of these refreshing cocktails

• 2 oz gin
• 1 oz cherry brandy
• 1 oz lemon juice
• 1 tsp grenadine
• club soda or lemon-lime soda to top off
• some ice cubes

Put 4-6 ice cubes in a cocktail shaker. Pour the gin, cherry brandy, lemon juice and grenadine over the ice in the shaker. Shake vigorously until a frost forms. Fill a footed cooler half full of ice. Strain the cocktail over the ice in the glass. Top off with soda and garnish with lime peel and maraschino cherry. Enjoy!

*Non-alcoholic recipe: follow the above recipe but omit the gin and brandy, substitute it with 2 oz grape or mixed berry juice. Serve and Enjoy!

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