What is a Collins?
Collins: A sour lengthened with soda water over ice. Also the tall glass it's served in.
- Category
- Drink family
- Taste
- Fizzy lemonade with a spirit.
- Strength
- Light to medium
- Similar to
- a fizz
- Also called
- collins glass, tom collins
The story
The original was a gin punch named after John Collins, a waiter at Limmer's Hotel in London in the 1800s. In 1874 a New York hoax had people saying "Tom Collins is talking about you," and bartenders cashed in with a drink of that name.