Gin and tonic: the gentleman's drink

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Copied from the "Tall Spirits" home distilling newsletter.

PINK GIN ( Naval Officers only)

Trebel shot of Superior Dry Gin (The Juniper offsets gout)

Three dashes of Angostura Bitters (Wards off the Tropical gyp)

Iced water to taste (delays dehy-dration)

[Skyryder]

This is a bit off topic but I was watching some History Channel and there was this programme on living like they do in the dim dark ages like growing their own corn grinding it in a working mill, baking etc. Hell they even had pigs so that they could root up the ground to make easier to plough so it was primitive stuff. Anyway they were making beer etc and this woman making the beer was giving a speil how beer and ale are different. Beer has hops and it's the hops that act as a presevitive and allow the beer to 'keep' longer. Ale on the other hand has no hops and will not keep as long. This is all news to me as I thought ale and beer were no different.

Anyone got the 'real' oil on this?


Skyryder