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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSaturday night gin-and-tonic. With a twist of lemon.
I love you all...
TexasTowelie
(111,312 posts)was to never stop drinking. Enjoy the potent potables.
Aristus
(66,096 posts)Sooner or later, Ill have to drive to the supermarket for more. Ill be sober for that.
TexasTowelie
(111,312 posts)Be persuasive!
Aristus
(66,096 posts)OTOH, more for me!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)Lime.
Here's how to make a good gin and tonic (and in my small circle I'm the Goddess of Gin and Tonic):
Fill the glass with ice.
Squeeze the juice of about an 8th of a lime over the ice. One jigger gin, two jiggers tonic. Do NOT use diet tonic. Trust me on this.
Stir and serve.
I'm an inordinately fond of Beefeater's gin for my G&Ts. I think that's because that was the gin used when I was first drinking them, which was mostly on board airplanes, flying somewhere. And to be honest, a high end or fragrant gin is completely wasted in a G&T.
If I'm having a martini I will always specify Bombay Sapphire.
Aristus
(66,096 posts)Im drinking Beefeaters.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)I do have a fondness for Beefeater's because it reminds me of my dissipated youth.
Aristus
(66,096 posts)I chose lemon because I use lime all the time for my Moscow Mules.
Change of pace...
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)IMHO, no need to 'stir' that delicious concoction, it'll mix on it's own over a minute or two just fine, esp. with fresh tonic, doing it's bubbly thing
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)Although I honestly thing what will happen is that the initial sips will be all tonic, and will after a while be all gin. Which, come to think of it, is not necessarily a bad thing.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Tilt the glass slightly and pour the tonic slowly down the side, that way it 'gets under' the gin. The main point being ... preserve the tonic's fizz. Stirring breaks up the bubbles and flattens it quicker
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)Thank you for that advice. I think I'll head out tomorrow and purchase gin, tonic, and limes.
Plus, since you are almost undoubtedly correct, I will become even more of a Goddess of Gin and Tonic next time I visit my sister and make this ambrosial drink.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)LisaM
(27,762 posts)For tonic, Fever Tree is expensive, but well worth it.
Glamrock
(11,781 posts)Just banged down a shot of Jameson in your honor baby! Cheers!
Aristus
(66,096 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)It's like my 6th today ... lol ...
orleans
(33,987 posts)with a vodka and tonic (no twist--too pretentious!) on rocks!
Enjoy!
cilla4progress
(24,589 posts)But the quinine starts to chew at my stomach after a bit.
Drink of choice this weekend: Titos, Austin hand-crafted (so they say) vodka + organic lemonade + straight lemon (Volcano brand - the best (lemonade too sweet).
Topped off with home grown strawberries and blueberries.
Its all about the ingredients , bra!
Aristus
(66,096 posts)There were juniper bushes outside the last house I lived in before starting out on my own. Gin tastes the way those bushes smelled. If I knew anything about distilling, I might have made my own gin as a teenager and spared myself the classic teenage adventure: "Hey mister? Could you buy me a little something from in there? Here's the money; you can keep what's left."
Miss_Underestimated
(257 posts)why?
Aristus
(66,096 posts)But first: are you left-hand dominant?
If you are, that might explain it.
Miss_Underestimated
(257 posts)I hope I didn't ruin the gin party with my question.
Yes, lefty here. Relieved to have had the mystery solved. Thank you.
Aristus
(66,096 posts)When you asked, I had to think through my gin-haze: "Did I write 'ask me anything' this time? Hmmm..."
It just confused me. At this stage of the evening, that's easy to do...