hi I'm Damien one of the bartenders over at liquid Kitty in West LA California and we're gonna talk a little bit about the Singapore sling it's an interesting drink supposedly developed in 1915 at the raffles hotel in Singapore by a Chinese bartender whose name I can't pronounce that's the folklore about it nobody really knows if that's true or not or where it came from but it's basically a gin-based drink with a lot of sweeteners in it rest of the folklore goes that there's no two recipes are the same so at the kitty we came up with a recipe that's based on supposedly the original recipe but it's tough to say because you can go to any bar restaurant and they're never going to be the same two drinks but they will be similar in that they have gin lime juice and cherry berry brandy which are the three main ingredients we start with Nopalea grande glass which is the closest thing we have to a hurricane glass we'll fill that with ice today we'll be using a Beefeater gin about two and a half ounces of Beefeater five-count depending on where you're at cherry brandy will be the second ingredient which is maybe about an ounce ounce and a half a cherry brandy Cointreau which is an orange based liqueur Benedictine which is an old Benedictine monk recipe liqueur a little less than an ounce grenadine just a splash for color couple dashes of bitters and then I'm going to put some fresh-squeezed lime in there about half a lime I'll cut a lime in half and then cut it into two smaller parts to make it easier to squeeze then I'll fish it finish it off with pineapple juice and then I'll shake the whole thing up to mix it up and then garnish it with a cherry and a large straw and that's your traditional Singapore sling as close as I can get to the original recipe Tom Collins is a drink from developed in like the 1800s probably lady janitor or late 18-hundreds early 1900s and the folklore goes that it was developed by a guy named John Collins and named after somebody in the British Parliament named Tom Collins