Imbibe article, and here's an interesting recipe mit beer:

Tom Terrific

Fresh citrus and a splash of hoppy IPA brighten up this Old Tom sipper.

1 3/4 oz. Old Tom gin

1/2 oz. Cherry Heering

1/2 oz. Demerara simple syrup (2:1 sugar to water)

1/2 oz. fresh lemon juice

2 oz. IPA beer

Ice cubes

Tools: shaker, strainer

Glass: Collins

Garnish: orange wheel

Combine all ingredients, except beer, and shake with ice. Strain over fresh ice cubes into a Collins glass, top with beer and garnish.

Milk & Cheese are swell! So is gin, any style.

Whiskey, however, does make a man mean!

Rum simply makes a man dead drunk...

"the comic "Milk & Cheese" and their saying: "Gin makes a man mean"?"

I had a M&C t-shirt: "Gin makes a man mean.  Everybody booze up and riot!"

This is the closest I could find to its origin

DammitDave said:

Never had or even seen Old Tom.  Am I right that it was the Tom used in the creation of the Tom Collins?

Wow, the sweetness of bourbon with the punch of lotsa hops. Sounds tasty, Thanks CK!

ck said:

here is my recipe:

4 oz. Buffalo Trace bourbon

12 oz. double (Simcoe) IPA

Tools:  tube amps

Garnish:  fuzz

Careful, those valves are muy expensive! Cheers!
Dan Electreau said:

Do you put the tubes in the freezer to chill them first?

I think I just found my weekend project.
ck said:

here is my recipe:

4 oz. Buffalo Trace bourbon

12 oz. double (Simcoe) IPA

Tools:  tube amps

Garnish:  fuzz

Hey, a comics fan! Evan is super-cool, Pirate Corp$! was great. If gin makes a man mean, rum must make a man a drooling idiot rummy.

Jeff Smith said:

Very cool info & recipes. Thanx! Honestly, I only bought Ransom Old Tom because I like Gin and it looked like something unusual to taste test (and I do enjoy taste testing the booze). Great to find out the history. The murder thing is interesting. Anyone remember the comic "Milk & Cheese" and their saying: "Gin makes a man mean"?

Btw: forgot the garnish for the Martinez, a lemon twist.

Trippy! Very innareestin' "Blue Ruin" indeed. Stay in touch, Dave

Spite Classic said:

Such A Crazy Story! 

Old Tom Gin

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Old Tom Gin (or Tom Gin or Old Tom) is a lightly sweetened Gin popular in 18th-century England that now is rarely available. It is slightly sweeter than London Dry, but slightly drier than Dutch/Holland Gin/Jenever, thus is sometimes called The Missing Link.^[1]

The name Old Tom Gin purportedly came from wooden plaques shaped like a black cat (an "Old Tom") mounted on the outside wall of some pubs above a public walkway in the 18th century England. Owing to a scandalous news report of a tragedy involving a murdered family, gin was outlawed and went underground, changing from a cloudy liquid to its modern clear form so as to appear like water. After a pedestrian deposited a penny in the cat's mouth, they would place their lips around a small tube between the cat's paws. From the tube would come a shot of Gin, poured by the bartender inside the pub.^[2]

Old Tom Gin was formerly made under license by a variety of distillers around the world; however one was recently relaunched by Hayman's distillery based on an original recipe.^[3] Since then a number of other companies have followed suit such as, Both's, Secret Treasures, Jensens, Ransom and even The Dorchester Hotel. ^[4]The first written record of Old Tom Gin being used in the Tom Collins cocktail was the 1891 book, The Flowing Bowl: When and What to Drink.[5

Very cool info & recipes. Thanx! Honestly, I only bought Ransom Old Tom because I like Gin and it looked like something unusual to taste test (and I do enjoy taste testing the booze). Great to find out the history. The murder thing is interesting. Anyone remember the comic "Milk & Cheese" and their saying: "Gin makes a man mean"?

Btw: forgot the garnish for the Martinez, a lemon twist.

Such A Crazy Story! 

Old Tom Gin

Old Tom Gin (or Tom Gin or Old Tom) is a lightly sweetened Gin popular in 18th-century England that now is rarely available. It is slightly sweeter than London Dry, but slightly drier than Dutch/Holland Gin/Jenever, thus is sometimes called The Missing Link.^[1]

The name Old Tom Gin purportedly came from wooden plaques shaped like a black cat (an "Old Tom") mounted on the outside wall of some pubs above a public walkway in the 18th century England. Owing to a scandalous news report of a tragedy involving a murdered family, gin was outlawed and went underground, changing from a cloudy liquid to its modern clear form so as to appear like water. After a pedestrian deposited a penny in the cat's mouth, they would place their lips around a small tube between the cat's paws. From the tube would come a shot of Gin, poured by the bartender inside the pub.^[2]

Old Tom Gin was formerly made under license by a variety of distillers around the world; however one was recently relaunched by Hayman's distillery based on an original recipe.^[3] Since then a number of other companies have followed suit such as, Both's, Secret Treasures, Jensens, Ransom and even The Dorchester Hotel. ^[4]The first written record of Old Tom Gin being used in the Tom Collins cocktail was the 1891 book, The Flowing Bowl: When and What to Drink.[5

Never had or even seen Old Tom.  Am I right that it was the Tom used in the creation of the Tom Collins?

Yum! Keep us updated on new recipes, folks!

Jeff, here's something similar:

Ford Cocktail

Styled after a classic gin Martini, this Old Tom variation invites a bit of Bénédictine into the mix.

2 oz. Old Tom gin

1 oz. Dolin Dry vermouth

1/4 oz. Bénédictine

2 dashes orange bitters

Ice cubes

Tools: mixing glass, barspoon, strainer

Glass: coupe

Garnish: orange peel

Combine all ingredients and stir with ice. Strain into a chilled coupe and garnish by expressing the orange oils over the drink and then discarding the peel.

Stephen Cole, Barrelhouse Flat, Chicago

Been very into Ransom Old Tom Gin lately. Been making a drink called a Martinez with it:

2 oz. Old Tom Gin

1 oz. Sweet Vermouth

1/4 oz. Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur

Dash Old Fashioned Orange Bitters

They say it's how the Manhattan transitioned into the Martini, and it's pretty delicious. I'll have to try your recipe. And I totally dig the Buffalo Trace with Fuzz as swell! TGIF!!

Cheers!

Do you put the tubes in the freezer to chill them first?

I think I just found my weekend project.
ck said:

here is my recipe:

4 oz. Buffalo Trace bourbon

12 oz. double (Simcoe) IPA

Tools:  tube amps

Garnish:  fuzz

here is my recipe:

4 oz. Buffalo Trace bourbon

12 oz. double (Simcoe) IPA

Tools:  tube amps

Garnish:  fuzz