In a market where new ready-to-drink canned cocktails seem to pop up every 30 seconds or so, it’s relatively uncommon to see one featuring gin as its base. And if they do, it’s even rarer to see options outside of a standard G&T. But then there’s the Finnish Long Drink.
The 12-ounce beverage was inspired by the original Long Drink, a loose combination of gin, grapefruit soda or juice, and carbonated water that can be found on tap all over Finland.
The Finnish Long Drink was founded by four entrepreneurs and friends, and launched in the United States in 2018. It soon gained an impressive team of celebrity investors, and since then, the drink’s success has reached stratospheric heights, cementing it as one of the fastest-growing ready-to-drink cocktails on the market.
Now that you know the basics, here are seven more things you should know about the Finnish Long Drink.
The Finnish Long Drink was inspired by a beverage developed for the 1952 Olympic Games.
It’s not unusual for a drink to be developed intentionally to be served at sporting events. We have the Honey Deuce to sip on at the U.S. Open and Mint Juleps to imbibe every May come Derby Day. But the original Finnish Long Drink has become so ubiquitous in Finnish culture that it’s transcended the reason it was invented: to satisfy thirsty attendees of the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics. Concerned about having to serve an enormous number of people as quickly as possible,
