Gibson (cocktail) than the onion into the 1930s and beyond, but still none use bitters. The famous Polished Gibson is garnished with a potato. The drink is traditionally made with gin, but the vodka Gibson is also common. The exact origin of the Gibson is unclear, with numerous popular tales and theories about its genesis. According to one popular theory Charles Dana Gibson is responsible for the creation of the Gibson, when he supposedly challenged Charley Connolly, the bartender of the Players Club in New York City, to improve upon the martini's recipe, so Connolly simply substituted an onion for the olive
Greyhound (cocktail) Greyhound (cocktail) A greyhound is a cocktail consisting of grapefruit juice and either gin or vodka mixed and served over ice. If the rim of the glass has been salted, the drink is instead called a salty dog. The earliest known mention of a cocktail of this description is in bartender and author Harry Craddock's "Savoy Cocktail Book" of 1930. Craddock describes his recipe as ""...a variation of the Grapefruit Cocktail..."", suggesting that such cocktails were already in common use before his book was written. His recipe consists of nothing but gin, grapefruit juice and ice. A recipe for a