Saturn
ClassicA gin tiki that won the world championship in 1967.
Tart and tropical, with juniper-forward gin anchoring the fruit. Passion fruit brings a bright, musky tang, orgeat and falernum add almond and spice, and the whole thing lands crisp and refreshing rather than heavy.
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz Gin
- 0.5 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
- 0.5 oz Passion Fruit Syrup
- 0.25 oz Orgeat
- 0.25 oz Falernum
- Lemon peel ring · optional garnish
Method
- 1
Add every ingredient to a blender with a scoop of crushed ice, or shake hard with crushed ice.
- 2
Blend or shake until frosty.
- 3
Pour into a chilled coupe.
- 4
Garnish with a lemon peel curled into a ring around the surface — Saturn's rings.
The Story
The Saturn is tiki's great outlier: a gin drink in a rum-ruled world. Los Angeles bartender J. "Popo" Galsini mixed it to win the 1967 International Bartenders Association world championship, and it spent decades as a forgotten curiosity until the modern tiki revival rescued it. The lemon-peel garnish, coiled into a ring, gives the drink its planetary name.
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