• Orange gin uses macerated orange peels.Daryl Solomon/Photodisc/Getty Images
  
  Once used for medicinal purposes, gin is made by distilling juniper berries with grain, such as barley, corn or rye. Citrus flavors, however, offer a popular twist on the traditional flavor of the old classic cocktail ingredient. Orange gin, for example, combines ground orange peels with gin (for up to two months) and can be found in sweetened or unsweetened form, according to the Bar None website.
  
  

Orange Gin Fizz

• Soda water adds the fizz to a gin fizz.Orange slice in soda water image by Christopher Martin from Fotolia.com
  
  A gin fizz can be made in any number of ways---from the traditional cocktail using gin, lemon juice, lime juice, superfine sweetener and soda water, to the Danish Gin fizz, which incorporates cherry flavors and lime juice, or even the royal gin fzz, which adds an egg to the original recipe. The orange gin fizz presents another take on the drink by combining lemon juice, sugar, orange-flavored gin. Shake the ingredients in an iced cocktail shaker and strain into a highball glass over ice, before adding soda water to fizz the drink.
  
  

Comet

• A Comet combines orange gin and Lillet.comet image by goce risteski from Fotolia.com
  
  The comet combines equal parts of orange gin and lillet, an aperitif made from wine, brandy, fruit and herbs. Add two dashes of maraschino, stir with ice, and strain into a cocktail glass before garnishing with an olive.
  
  

Orange Gin Rickey

• An orange gin rickey uses lime juice with orange gin.lime image by isatori from Fotolia.com
  
  Epicurious describes a traditional gin rickey as "a cross between a Collins and a sour," made by stirring together lemon or lime juice, an ice cube, gin and club soda. The orange gin rickey combines orange gin and fresh lime juice (including the shell after squeezing) in a highball glass filled with ice. After stirring, fill the glass with soda water.