Whatcha drinking (2025)?

[karadekoolaid]

I can do Vodka but Gin is non-negotiable for me - tastes like a pine tree me, maybe too herbaceous?

I suppose we Brits were brought up on gin & tonic. However, I've maybe had one, or two, in the past 45 years. Not because of the flavour:
1) I was invited to a "Venezuelan" party back in 78. The girls said we'd be eating "arepas" so I thought that'd be good. They plonked a bottle of gin in front of us; it was about 6pm. The arepas appeared at 12.30am, by which time we were all kissed as poots.
2) Now in Venezuela, my (new) wife and I went to an Italian restaurant and I ordered a G&T. The gin had been adulterated. I couldn't even finish the glass before I was totally out of my mind. No dinner, wife drove home.
Fast forward to about 4 weeks ago and I had a gin & tonic made by a local producer. Unbelievably good.

 

[JAS_OH1]

Gin and tonic on a week night
Well every now n then it has to happen

Now more often than then?

 

[badjak]

I like gin & tonic now, but it got to be nice sunny weather.
I remember long long time ago, someone next to me on the plane ordering a gin and tonic and wondered how he could drink something that smelt like my mother's eau de cologne

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Now more often than then?

I only tend to have a drink midweek if some calamity has occurred and I'd like to stop thinking about it. Works a treat!

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I suppose we Brits were brought up on gin & tonic. However, I've maybe had one, or two, in the past 45 years. Not because of the flavour:
1) I was invited to a "Venezuelan" party back in 78. The girls said we'd be eating "arepas" so I thought that'd be good. They plonked a bottle of gin in front of us; it was about 6pm. The arepas appeared at 12.30am, by which time we were all kissed as poots.
2) Now in Venezuela, my (new) wife and I went to an Italian restaurant and I ordered a G&T. The gin had been adulterated. I couldn't even finish the glass before I was totally out of my mind. No dinner, wife drove home.
Fast forward to about 4 weeks ago and I had a gin & tonic made by a local producer. Unbelievably good.

I think the tonic is the make or break for most people.
Fever tree are single handedly responsible for its resurgence.