I found this recipe in The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook.

Cheerwine, gin, lime juice, club soda⁣
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Cheerwine is a soda invented in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1917. It is a popular drink in the Carolinas, outselling Pepsi ten to one in Rowan county. But it is largely unheard of outside the Carolinas and deep South. ⁣
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@kc.knits sent me a recipe for a Cheerwine cocktail from The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook, by Matt and Ted Lee, South Carolinians who now write for magazines and appear on tv to tell the world about southern cooking. There are a lot of interesting drinks in this cookbook, including Corncob Wine, and Cheerwine Cocktail No. 2, as well. ⁣
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I was interested to try this cocktail, mainly because it uses gin, but also because I wanted to try Cheerwine. In my still-limited experience with mixed drinks, vodka is the go-to booze to mix with anything, not gin. ⁣
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I might get killed for saying this as a Texan…Cheerwine tastes an awful lot like Dr. Pepper. 🤠 As far as the cocktail goes, when you add lime and gin to Cheerwine, it takes on a totally different flavor. It’s delicious, like a Black Cherry Rickey. ⁣