Eastside Rickey

Ingredients

2 oz London Dry Gin (Beefeater is ideal)

0.75 oz lime juice

0.75oz simple syrup (1:1)

3-4 oz club soda

3 slices of cucumber

6-8 mint leaves


Directions 

Muddle cucumber and mint in the bottom of a shaker tin. Add liquid ingredients and ice, seal and shake hard. Strain into a tall glass over fresh ice and top with 3-4 oz soda water, and garnish with a mint crown stuck through the middle of a cucumber coin.