About the John Collins cocktail
The John Collins is a classic gin highball made with gin, lemon juice, sugar, and soda water. It drinks like sparkling gin lemonade: tall, cold, crisp, and refreshing, with bright citrus balanced by sweetness and a clean botanical backbone from the gin.
The John Collins is closely related to the Gin Fizz and Tom Collins, which is where some cocktail confusion begins. Both the John Collins and Gin Fizz use gin, lemon, sugar, and soda, but the Collins is built directly in the glass, giving it a taller, more casual highball feel. The John Collins also predates the Tom Collins, with the usual distinction being that a John Collins uses London dry gin while a Tom Collins uses Old Tom gin.
