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The Lemon Drop cocktail was created in the 1970s by Norman Jay Hobday, the owner of Henry Africa’s bar in San Francisco, and is widely regarded as one of the early examples of the modern “sweet and sour” cocktail style. Inspired by the lemon drop candy, Hobday combined vodka, fresh lemon juice and sugar to create a bright, sweet-tart drink, traditionally served in a chilled cocktail glass with a sugar rim. The drink became particularly popular during the 1980s and helped establish the vodka-based, fruit-forward cocktail style that defined much of the era.

Hers’s how we did it:

Lemon Drop

25ml Vodka, Ketel One
25ml Triple Sec, Cointreau
15ml Lemon Juice
15ml Simple syrup 1:1
Sugar
Lemon peel
Microplane for lemon zest (optional)

Chill you Martini glass

(Optional)
Use a microplane to produce a finely grated lemon zest and mix it with your sugar.

Brush a lemon slice or spare simple syrup around the rim of the glass.
Rim the glass with your sugar or zest mix
Pour all ingredients into a shaker
Double into the glass
Garish with a lemon twist.

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