Fill a collins glass with ice. Add an ounce and a half of bourbon. Fill with collins mix. Add lime juice to taste. Try to understand why this is called The Limestone rather than a bourbon collins. Fail.
For our purposes, Chris has decided that "to taste" shall be equivalent to "one squirt" from our trusty lime juice.
Speaking of fail, before purchasing our $6 bottle of collins mix from Superfresh, we tried to find a recipe online. Copious googling yielded a story from the BBC announcing that unless you're a member of the royal family, you won't be getting a fresh collins mix. Apparently the recipe is that well guarded. Luckily, Holland House has created a collins mix. For those of you interested in recreating it, you'll just need some high fructose corn syrup, water, citric acid, sodium nitrate, natural flavors, sodium benzoate (preservative), gum acacia, polysorbate 60 and sodium metabisulfite (preservative). FYI: Holland House mixes are produced by Mott's! The more you know!
Chris has just yelled from the kitchen that this drink is very sweet. Indeed, I now have diabetes myself.
Might be (more) enjoyable on a very hot summer day. When there is nothing else available to drink.
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