South Side Cocktail
A south side or southside is an alcoholic beverage made with gin, lime juice, simple syrup and mint. A variant, the southside fizz, adds soda water. Its origins are subject to speculation; it has been alternatively proposed that it gets its name from either the South Side district of the city of Chicago, or from the Southside Sportsmen's Club on Long Island. According to one story, the drink was the preferred beverage is Al Capone, whose gang dominated Chicago's South Side. The gin imported by Capone's rivals on the North Side of Chicago was smooth, and usually consumed with ginger ale.
Ingredients
- 10–12 mint leaves
- 2 oz gin
- ¾ oz fresh-squeezed lime juice
- ¾ oz simple syrup
Ingredients for 1 serving (105 g) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
Combine all ingredients except mint into a cocktail shaker, fill shaker with ice, and shake well.
- 2
Open shaker and add mint, leaving 1 mint leaf around the size of your thumb for garnish.
- 3
Close cocktail shaker and roll the mint from one end of the shaker to the other to gently express the mint oils but to not bruise the mint.
- 4
Use a hawthorn strainer and a fine mesh strainer to filter the contents into a chilled cocktail coupe.
- 5
Garnish with the spare mint leaf you left aside.
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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