I drink it half and half (small can of schweppes tonic) or ever so slightly gin heavy with a slice o lime & 4 ice cubes, perfect!

that’ll be Bombay Saphire/Plymouth/Aldi Oliver Cromwell..

What about anyone else? Hic!

Probably 1/5 gin tbh 😐

Bombay Sapphire for me

1:4 for me – but drunk by the half pint

I’ve run out of beer and tonic, so it’s Bombay Saphire neat for me, 😉

He who dares gins.

like sapphire, but tanquerays where it’s at for me much smoother, though that may be my (wayward) pallet.

alexathorne – Mr Jolly lives next door…

white101 – Tanquerays never on sale in Yorkshire 😉

About 1:3 gin:tonic with a dash of Angustura bitters. Pink gin is the future.

Probably about 1:3 (Gin/Tonic), but has to be neat for sloe gin with a couple of ice cubes

GnT should be served in a pint glass.

lot’s of ice and tonic.

don’t forget the gin – 1 shot

cucumber is a worthy alternative to lime.

1 gin to 3 tonic. Always a slice of lime. 3 cubes.
For high days and holidays we indulge ourselves with a bottle of Hendrick’s. Other times Sapphire.

+1 for Hendricks

Currently enjoying a caorunn gin and tonic.
50:50 lots of ice and a wedge of red apple.
Surprisingly good.

-1 for Bombay sapphire.

Try with cucumber instead of lemon or lime. It is sublime (door, coat).

ahwiles – 1 shot in a pint glass = homeopathic G&T

Hendricks + cucumber = win

maybe 1:3, I like to know I’m drinking a spirit.

Drank with bitter lemon and mix so i can taste the gin, some times to much with scary results.

iDave – Member

ahwiles – 1 shot in a pint glass = homeopathic G&T

No, no. A homeopathic G&T would be a glass with just tonic in it…

Mmm wifes cousin was doing a similar mix last night at a bit of family gathering, she was completely steaming after about 3 hrs and went home just after 8, much to the annoyance of her kids who were playing quite happily with all the other kids here!!

I may just give cucumber a go tonight

+1 Hendricks + cucumber
Blackwwods at a push

Hendricks + Ardbeg + spiral of cucumber peel = WIN!!! ……… smokey

I may just give cucumber a go tonight

😯

75ml of Bombay + Schweppe’s tonic + lime + ice cubes = grrrreat.

perhaps i should have been more specific:

drop 4 slices of cucumber into the bottom of a pint glass.

pour in 1 shot of Gin (40ml) (Hendricks if available).

put your stirry thing in.

half fill the pint glass with ice cubes.

pour in enough Tonic so the glass is 2/3rds full.

give it a stir.

enjoy – you are now ready for the rest of your breakfast.

(the procedure described above will give you a gin:tonic ratio of roughly 1:5)

There are 4 grades of gin and tonic

recreational (about 6 parts tonic to 1 part gin)
robust (about 4:1)
racy (about 2:1)
Rantzen (about 1:3) – just enough tonic to make it fizzy. So called cos it strips your gums off your teeth and makes you smile like its namesake.

As usual the missus has pointed out i’m a dumbass!

Its actually slightly tonic heavy. The ice had confused me (not hard!).

Defo think that alcoholic drinks should taste of alcohol though?

Following on from everyones input i may try adding cucumber and will certainly try pints!!

I’m on a certain Mr Daniels, I find the ratio increases the more I drink, so, maybe a small measure of jack to the Coke 1:5, then as the night progresses they swap sides, so it ends up with the Jack outnumbering the coke by about 5:1

Seems a fair way of doing it, should work well with Gin

FFS, just taken me 9 attempts to post this 😆

Angostura bitters?

Alternatively. Angosturas spun round glass and thrown away and then neat gin thereby making a proper pink gin or gin and dry martini with an olive. Both mind-blowing and lovely lovely.

There are 4 grades of gin and tonic

When you go beyond this you realise that Gin is not great to get drunk on by itself and you really should have been better prepared/less desperate and had a decent whisky or any other kind of alcohol in stock at home.

You really shouldn’t being feeling sick before you’re drunk.

Not sure what Angosturas Bitters are but we have some in the house.

Put a drop or two of your bitters on a sugar cube, drop in your champagne flute and pour in a little brandy. Then add your Cava or Champers, lovely!

I don’t wear a dress or have female genitalia, therefore I drink beer or whisky 😉