To Serve Man
Gin

Saturn

Glass
Pilsner

J. "Popo" Galsini's IBA gold-medal gin tropical, garnished to look like the ringed planet.

gin tiki mid-century blended frozen passion-fruit falernum orgeat
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Ingredients

  • crushed ice (1 cup)
  • fresh lemon juice (0.5 oz)
  • passion fruit syrup (0.5 oz)
  • falernum (0.25 oz)
  • orgeat (0.25 oz)
  • dry gin (1.25 oz)
  • lemon peel (1)
  • maraschino cherry (1)

Instructions

  1. In an electric blender combine crushed ice, fresh lemon juice, passion fruit syrup, falernum, orgeat, and dry gin.
  2. Blend until slushy, about .
  3. Pour into a chilled pilsner glass or tall glass.
  4. Garnish with a long lemon peel circled around a maraschino cherry.

Sources

  1. Berry, Beachbum Berry Remixed (2010), Saturn entry, recovers the spec from J. "Popo" Galsini's Kona Kai colleague Bob Esmino, including the X-15-to-Saturn renaming story and the 1967 IBA gold-medal win in Majorca. ↩
  2. "Saturn." Vintage American Cocktails. https://vintageamericancocktails.com/saturn/ (accessed 2026-05-03), published version of the Berry reconstruction; source for this file's measurement bill. ↩