Gin Buck

The Gin Buck is the original of the buck family: gin lengthened with lemon juice and ginger ale over ice, dry and prickly with a bracing citrus snap. A Prohibition-era and British pub staple — Wikipedia catalogs it as the British or London Buck — it takes its name from the "kick" ginger ale gave the older non-alcoholic Horse's Neck. Simple, thirst-quenching, and endlessly riffable into mules and foghorns.