Gibson (cocktail) Gibson (cocktail) The Gibson is a mixed drink made with gin and dry vermouth, and often garnished with a pickled onion. The oldest published recipe for the Gibson is found in the 1908 book, "The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them" by William Boothby. Other pre-prohibition recipes for the Gibson exist. They all omit bitters and none of them garnish with an onion. Some garnish with citrus twists. Others use no garniture at all. There is no known recipe for the Gibson garnishes with an onion before William Boothby's 1908 Gibson Recipe. Some sources persist in using other garnishment
Gibson (cocktail) make a customer a Smirnoff Gibson at the Bull and Bar in New York City as a final test for completing the course, comically arranging the drink in a haphazard and incorrect manner before attempting to charge the customer $600. Philip Marlowe orders one in the Raymond Chandler detective novel "Playback": "...I ordered a double Gibson and asked if I could have a club sandwich where I was." In Season 3, Episode 2 of "Mad Men", "Love Among the Ruins," Roger Sterling orders a "Gibson, up" at a lunch meeting. Gibson (cocktail) The Gibson is a mixed drink made with