#22 Cocktail: Bennett

    During the years of the Prohibition, at the underground clubs, many centered around Long Beach's amusement zoneknown as the Pike, inventive bartenders enjoyed new respect for disguising the taste of the day's alcohol. They created a new generation of cocktails heavy on fruit juices to mix with the bathtub gin.
   That is how the Bennett cocktail was created. The original version of the cocktail had no sweetening agent and it was mouth-puckering to say the least.

2 ounces gin

1 ounce fresh lime juice

1/2 ounce simple syrup

2 dashes Angostura bitters