How to Make a City Rickey Cocktail Inspired by Gin Rickey
What is Gin Rickey Cocktail?
Gin Rickey is a very popular, classic gin cocktail with 3 basic ingredients and easy to make. A colonel named Joe Rickey invented this cocktail in 1883 with the suggestion of his friends. Initially, when Joe Rickey started to drink it, bourbon was the main ingredient but in time it evolved to rye whiskey and gin. Nowadays, when you search for the recipe of City Rickey, gin will come up as the main ingredient. This is probably the reason we call it “Gin” Rickey =) You just need a highball glass filled with ice, 2 parts of bourbon, gin or rye whiskey, juice of half a lime and soda water to top up to make a Gin Rickey. But today, we’re going to make a City Rickey that I found on Absolut’s website.
I value this drink a lot because although the recipe is quite simple, I believe that the ingredients and how to mix them teach a lot about the basics of cocktails.
The Ingredients
You need 5 ingredients to make a City Rickey but these are very common ones that you will not have trouble having. In fact, if you’re into cocktails, I’m sure that you already have them in your drinks cupboard.
Just like the modified version of Gin Rickey, City Rickey also uses gin as the main ingredient. Other than that, you need triple sec, lime juice, soda water and cranberry juice.
As a fan of fresh ingredients, I love squeezing fruits to include in my cocktails but cranberry juice is one of the exceptions I have to make for the recipes. Luckily, there is a not-from-concentrate alternative from Ocean Spray which I can use comfortably.


How to build City Rickey
You don’t need a shaker or any fancy equipment to build your City Rickey. Fill your glass with ice, Add gin, lime juice and triple sec (I use Cointreau for that) first. Give it a good stir. Then add soda water and stir gently.
This is the part I love: add the cranberry juice slowly and watch it go down through the ice slowly. After that, it’s all up to you to stir it once more or drink it as it is.
You can put a cocktail stir stick and drink it by sipping or use a straw and enjoy. My set of cocktail equipment is all gold rose coloured and I love using matching colours, even though it makes no difference. I bought the stick I used for this cocktail from Amazon for £7.19 and they’re very pretty. You can see it and some other alternatives here if you’d like to check them out.
Cranberry is not a sweet fruit. If you use no-sugar-added juice, this drink will give you a sour taste. Add 1/4 part of Simple Syrup to your drink if you want it to be sweeter.
As you can see, making fancy cocktails at home is not hard and does not take too much effort. At first, you should try classic cocktails by paying attention to the ingredients and ratios. Firstly, try to understand what makes you happy, and which taste you love more. Afterwards, you can start modifying the well-known recipes and then get your hands on creating your own.
Let me know what you think about this cocktail. What other ideas do you have to alternate this drink? And if you like cranberry gin cocktails, take a look at my version of Cosmopolitan cocktail made with lemon drizzle gin, instead of vodka citron. Cheers!

City Rickey Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 part Gin
- 1 part Triple sec
- 1/3 part Lime juice freshly squeezed
- 1 1/2 part Soda water
- 1 1/2 part Cranberry juice
- 1 piece Lime peel to garnish
Instructions
- This is a cocktail that is built, not shaken.
- Chill your highball glass and fill it with lots of ice.
- Pour each ingredient into the glass, stir with a long bar spoon if you have one.
- Twist your lime peel and garnish your glass. Enjoy!
This sounds like a gin drink I can get on board with! Sounds so refreshing!
Thank you. I prefer this one to a classic Gin Rickey, I love fruits =) Cheers!
This looks like a delicious cocktail. I would love to sip on this with a good book!
This is a really refreshing cocktail to take your book with you and enjoy at a garden 🙂
Oh my gosh this looks amazing, I love a good cocktail, thank you for sharing this.
Thanks, Bella. Hope that you’ll enjoy it! Cheers 🙂
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