COCKTAIL · Classic cocktails
Pegu Club
PUBLISHED · 19 Oct 2026
The Rangoon club’s house cocktail: gin, orange curaçao, lime and a double dose of bitters.
The Rangoon club’s house cocktail: gin, orange curaçao, lime and a double dose of bitters.
INGREDIENTS
- Gin60 ml
- Orange curaçao15 ml
- Lime juice15 ml
- Angostura bitters1 dash
- Peychaud’s bitters1 dash
- Lime wheelto garnish
Shake the gin, curaçao, lime and both bitters with ice until well chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe and garnish with a lime wheel.
- CREATED
- 1920s
- CREATOR
- Unknown
- STATE
- Myanmar (Burma)
- LOCATION
- Rangoon (Yangon), Burma
The Pegu Club was created in the 1920s at the ex-pat gentlemen’s club of the same name in British colonial Rangoon, Burma. It first appears in Harry McElhone’s 1923 ABC of Mixing Cocktails and in Harry Craddock’s 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book, which called it “the favourite cocktail at the Pegu Club, Burma… asked for round the world”. Early recipes used lime cordial; modern versions often prefer fresh lime.
✳Pegu Club