There’s some gin in the kitchen infused with sloe berries. It tastes like cough medicine. Quite nice actually.
I adore gin, and I’m even learning to like Old Tom gin. I still haven’t figured out what to do with sloe gin, though.
In tall glass, squeeze half a lemon into two shots of sloe gin and fill with club soda. It’s called a Sloe gin fizz and it takes like a SweetTart.
I beg your pardon tastes like a what?
And if you’ve neither? I don’t like tonic water, and gin isn’t my fave spirit but if i need a drink it’s acceptable. Anything else masks the taste, but carbonated water would do.
Soda water is carbonated water enhanced with some type of sodium. You could use just sparkling water if you prefer a zero-sodium alternative. You wouldn’t want to use tonic water so good thing you don’t like it.
SweetTarts (candy that tastes both sweet and tart):
See when you said sweet tart i thou- you know what nevermind XD
I’m not sure we have soda water. Just carbonated, tonic and lemonade.
Drank gin once some time ago. Only a small glass and not even full. Gave me such a headache the next morning. XD
How much of a glass? You’re not meant to fill the entire glass you know, unless it’s a shot glass lol.
I wanna try absinthe or something insanely strong.
I thought absinthe was a strange, mysterious drink until I learned that I had had something extremely similar while in France: pastis (Pernod and Ricard are the most popular, I think). A little pastis and some water over ice on a hot day is wonderful!
As for gin: you have to know that there are many different kinds of gin. The most common and popular one is the London dry gin (your typical juniper-punch-to-the-face). I like it in cocktails but not so much straight. (As if I enjoy anything straight. Ahem.)
I far prefer either a cucumber-flavored gin (Hendrick’s is the most common one in the US) or a botanical gin (yes, they contain juniper but the more forward flavors come from a mix of flavorings like citrus, cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander, and many others). Oh, and if you’re drinking more than 60 ml at a time, you are well on the road to regret! 🙂
Over the last few years I have discovered the joy of gin and tonics, but I have also learned that the “tonic water” that you buy is absolutely and thoroughly disgusting. Tonic syrups are becoming more popular in the US; these are basically just a sugar syrup with quinine and various botanical flavorings. This is a nice overview (and I see several brands I still need to try! Jack Rudy’s is my go-to, but 18.21 is amazing).
Oh, and for the record, soda water = carbonated water = club soda = seltzer. It’s just water injected with carbon dioxide
at high pressure. Some commercial brands of club soda do add a slight amount of salt for flavor.
I will now stop being a pedantic ass and go back to enjoying my booze quietly.