Fix Family
Spirit, sugar, lemon, and water drinks built over shaved ice and ornamented with fruit, sitting on the threshold between decorative nineteenth-century coolers and later stripped-back sours.
Origin
Thomas groups fixes and sours together and defines the sour directly from the fix by removing the fruit garnish and pressing lemon in the glass.
template
- Brandy Fix
Brandy Fix is the clearest explicit base form in this Thomas section.
variant
- Gin Fix
Gin variation within the fix family.
- Rum Fix
A Jamaica-rum branch of Boothby's fix template.
- Sherry Fix
A sherry branch of Boothby's fix template.
- St. Croix Fix
Rum branch showing overlap with late sparkling service.
- Whiskey Fix
A whiskey branch of Boothby's fix template.
descendant
- Apple Brandy Fix
Apple-brandy fix branch with sparkling finish.
- Apple Jack Fix
Applejack branch of the dressed Fix family.
- Applejack Fix
Applejack branch of the fruit-dressed Fix family.
- Brandy Sour
Thomas defines the sour as a stripped branch of the fix family.
- Gin Sour
Thomas defines the sour as a stripped branch of the fix family.
- Santa Cruz Fix
Regional Santa Cruz rum branch of the Fix family.
branch
- Knickerbocker
Shaken rum-and-berry citrus branch adjacent to the fix and later sour line.
- White Lion
Rum-and-berry citrus branch adjacent to the fix line.
Modern descendants
- Brandy Daisy
- iced fruit-topped sours
- pre-modern sour structures