photo by Mario Antonio Pena Zapatería via flickr.com

It hardly seems real, but it’s been 10 years since Google launched its free email service, Gmail during  an invitation-only preview. It would be opened up to the general public  a few years later in Feb 2007. It was the first free email service to offer a then- unheard-of 1 Gb of storage . Many people rightly believed that it was an April Fool’s Day hoax.

The “G” Mail

recipe by Clarence Yoder

Yoder, a Northern Virginia native, came up with this combination as a riff on the classic “Airmail” cocktail.

• 1 1/2 oz. Green Hat Gin
• 3/4 oz. fresh lime juice
• 1 oz. honey syrup (1 part honey to 1 part water)
• 1 oz. sparkling wine
• Angostura Bitters

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.