Gin & Tonic: simple, easy, delicious. Photo by Michael's iPhone.
When it's really muggy, and I'm fried from work, and stress, and travel, and I just want something cold and guzzlable, inexpensive hooch is the way I go. I'm too much of a cheapskate to waste the expensive stuff on a guzzle, especially one filled with an ocean of tonic and a couple good squeezes of lime. Furthermore, it's senseless to dilute delicious
Beefeater or
Hendrick's (my two favorite gins) with a lot of tonic. And there are days when I simply don't want to bother with a shaker and
egg white, have no desire for a sip of
expensive reposado, and don't have the patience to weigh the
goddam bitters—just give me something cold and refreshing that will take ...
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