Tom Collins
The Collins is an alcoholic cocktail, which is based on the classic Sour, but also contains soda. The ingredients (no soda) are stirred on ice cubes or mixed, strained into the glass and there filled with soda.
For the cocktail, the Collins glass is a high narrow highball glass with a capacity of about 240 to 350 ml has been developed (8-12 oz. )
Tom Collins
Best known is the Tom Collins. Its components are (next to soda and ice cubes) gin, lemon juice and sugar or sugar syrup. The exact origin of the name is unclear. It is shrouded in many legends about, but which are not occupied. Very common is the story about the bartender John Collins from the London Tavern Limmer 's, whose specialty was a gin punch. By the later use of English Old Tom gin, instead of Dutch genever, was allegedly the name Tom Collins.
Just as often, the Great Tom Collins Hoax of 1874 is called. There is a bar - Fun, which was popular in the U.S. at this time. This individual Barg branches were told there would be a certain Tom Collins sitting in another bar and tell insolence on these same guests. Some visitors took this story seriously and rushed into the streets in search of Mr. Collins.
The difference between Tom Collins and Gin Fizz is not clearly defined. Both cocktails use the same ingredients. For the Tom Collins, there are a variety of recipes, which in the preparation partly are completely different. It can for example be not prove that the Collins is exclusively stirred. There are many recipe variations that prepare shaken the Tom Collins. The same applies also for the portioning of the ingredients, the amount of soda ash, the use of decoration.