Queens

Queens

• Type
  Cocktail
• Primary alcohol by volume
  Gin
• Served
  Straight up
• Standard drinkware
  Cocktail glass
• Commonly used ingredients
  6 parts gin
  3 parts sweet red vermouth
  3 parts dry vermouth
  4 parts pineapple juice
• Preparation
  Shake all ingredients in an ice-filled cocktail shaker.
  Strain into chilled martini or cocktail glass.

The queens cocktail is a variant on the Perfect Martini, with the addition of pineapple juice and sometimes lemon juice.

Its closest relative is the more popular Bronx, which contains orange juice rather than pineapple.

It can be found as early as 1930, in Harry Craddock’s Savoy Cocktail Book; Craddock’s text, however, lists it as a “Queen’s Cocktail.”

References
Queens (cocktail)