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Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system — famous for its iconic rings and 100-plus moons — but it also shares a name with a tropical cocktail of intergalactic proportions.
Like the Fog Cutter, Polynesian Spell, and Singapore Sling, the Saturn is a tiki classic made with gin. In a drinks genre more or less dominated by rum cocktails, gin plays a close second to the molasses and cane-based spirit, providing an unlikely but perfect botanical companion to any cast of fruit juices and syrups thrown its way. As our guest today explains, “The Saturn is for gin what the Mai Tai is for rum.” It’s undoubtedly a complex drink, but it still allows its base spirit to shine.
Most canonical tiki drinks came from legendary bartenders Donn Beach and Victor Bergeron, but the Saturn was coined by California-based bartender Joseph “Popo” Galsini in 1966. Since he never published the recipe anywhere, it fell into obscurity until it was unearthed — by
