1890–95, named after a Colonel Rickey
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Everyone gets a D.C. rickey to start, followed by a choice of four of the global drinks, complete with map, of course.
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2017
My favourite is New Columbia Distillers, which has created three gins, including a spring/summer one that makes a mean gin rickey.
From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2015
Meanwhile, if you ask for a lime rickey in a certain kind of New England restaurant, you will get an old-school treat rich with sugar and soda-shop Americana.
From Slate • Jul. 3, 2014
This ease of mixing and freedom from Anglophiliac mannerism recommend the rickey as a populist beverage.
From Slate • Jul. 3, 2014
Low-highbrow: Municipal government, Kipling, socialism, Shakespeare, politics, Thackeray, taxation, golf, grand opera, bridge, chicken � la Maryland, “eether,” stocks and bonds, gin rickey, Theodore Roosevelt, chewing gum in private.
From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston
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