A Southside Cocktail combines lemons, sugar, mint and gin. The recipe I found in Gary Regan's The Joy of Mixology uses calls for four lemon wedges muddled with the other ingredients before shaking. In muddling full wedges, you get a lot of peel which certainly enhanced the sharp tartness of the resulting beverage. I enjoyed the drink quite a lot. It's certainly sour - and pulpy - but the sugar and mint bring enough to take the edge off.
Worth noting, other recipes I've seen use limes instead of lemons.
The drink's origins are unclear. Is it the South Side of Chicago or the South Side Sportsmen's Club in Great River, New York? The most colorful theory supports the former, suggesting it may have been a favorite of gangster Al Capone's.
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