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Saturn（サターン）

Saturn served in a rocks glass
サターン · 1967Rocks · Shaken

A gin Tiki drink that won a world championship — passionfruit rings around a mellow core.

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01Recipe

Recommended recipe

House spec — an editorial spec drawing on the sourced versions below.

Ingredients and measures
IngredientMeasure
Gin37.5 ml
Passion fruit syrup15 ml
Orgeat7.5 ml
Falernum7.5 ml
Fresh lemon juice22.5 ml

Total volume (pre-dilution)

  1. 01

    Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice.

  2. 02

    Shake until well chilled.

  3. 03

    Strain over crushed ice in a rocks glass. Garnish.

Garnish — Lemon twist · or orange peel curls

02Taste profile

Sweetness
62Strong
Sourness*
90Intense
Bitterness
22Light
Fruitiness
78Strong
Herbal*
12Faint
Alcohol
42Moderate
Crisp
58Moderate

Independent editorial scores, 0–100. *Estimated from the ingredient list — a profile sketch, not a verdict.

03History

1967. J. 'Popo' Galsini — a Filipino-American bartender working Los Angeles-area bars — entered the IBA world cocktail championship with a gin sour wearing tiki clothes, and won.

The recipe lay in obscurity until Jeff 'Beachbum' Berry excavated it for 'Sippin' Safari' (2007); the tiki revival crowned it a lost masterpiece almost immediately.

Its structure is the giveaway: passionfruit + orgeat + falernum is the Mai Tai's logic with gin — which is why every tiki bar lists it, and every gin bar claims it.

Sources — Berry, Sippin' Safari (2007) · Difford's Guide · IBA competition records

04Recipe versions

Each version is shown exactly as recorded in its source — unverified claims are flagged.

Total volume (pre-dilution)
  • Sippin' Safari

    Sippin' Safari

    Jeff 'Beachbum' Berry · 2007 · Book · unverified

    • fresh lemon juice0.75 oz
    • Passion Fruit Syrup0.5 oz
    • Falernum0.5 oz
    • orgeat0.25 oz

    Shake, strain over crushed ice.

    The excavation that put Galsini's champion back on the map.

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05Variations

06The map

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