Gin and Tonic Cocktail
This is my brother Bob’s gin and tonic cocktail recipe and once you have it like this, all other G & T’s will pale by comparison. It’s all in the amount of lime juice you use.
I have made a lot of gin and tonic’s in my day. And one weekend, we were at my brother’s and he made one for us as a before dinner drink.
I’ve also imbibed a lot of G & T’s and was thinking, “ho hum, not an interesting drink.”
But then I sipped it.
Double yum.
I asked my brother what he did and when he told me, I nodded.
Okay, it’s all in the lime juice. I’ve been making it like this since then and everyone I serve them to, love it.
The extra lime juice makes it utterly refreshing and thirst quenching. You just have to remember not to chug it down.
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Helpful tips
- I know a lot of people like to use diet tonic water in their cocktails, but do yourself a favor and use regular tonic water. Tonic water does contain some sugar and the diet version uses artificial sweeteners and you can taste the difference.
- Wash your citrus before juicing them and/or adding the fruit in the glass.
- Here’s how: 1.) Use a natural unscented hand soap and scrub the skins with a vegetable brush and run the limes under water to wash off the soap or 2.) Fill a bowl with 3 cup of water and add 1 cup of white vinegar and let it sit for 10 minutes. Rinse the limes under running water and use a brush to scrub the skin.
How to make a gin and tonic cocktail
Pre-step
Get a cocktail shaker, measuring glass, citrus squeezer and double old fashioned glass.
Fill the shaker with ice and after measuring the ingredients out, pour them into it.
Step one
Get the ingredients – gin, lime, and tonic water.
Step two
Measure 2 ounces of gin.
Step three
Squeeze the juice out of a half of a lime.
Step four
Cap the shaker and shake for 10 seconds and pour the contents into the glass.
Step five
Add tonic water to fill the glass
Step six
Take two lime wedges and squeeze the juice into the glass and add them to the cocktail.
YUM!
Let’s look at the vertical view.
I take a sip the gin and tonic cocktail and sigh.
So good!
I hope you enjoyed this recipe.
Other delicious lime cocktails
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Gin and Tonic Cocktail
Ingredients
- 2 ounces dry gin
- .50 ounce lime juice freshly squeezed
- 5 ounces tonic water
Garnish
- 2 wedges lime
Instructions
- Fill your cocktail shaker halfway with ice
- Add gin, lime juice and cap the shaker and shake for 10 seconds2 ounces dry gin, .50 ounce lime juice
- Pour contents of the shaker into glass and fill it up the rest of the way with tonic water5 ounces tonic water
- Squeeze the 2 lime wedges into the drink and drop the wedges into the glass. If you need to add ice, do so now2 wedges lime
- Sip
- Smile
- Enjoy
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- I know a lot of people like to use diet tonic water in their cocktails, but do yourself a favor and use regular tonic water.
- Tonic water does contain some sugar and the diet version uses artificial sweeteners and you can taste the difference.
- Wash your citrus before juicing them and/or adding the fruit in the glass.
- Here’s how: 1.) Use a natural unscented hand soap and scrub the skins with a vegetable brush and run the limes under water to wash off the soap or 2.) Fill a bowl with 3 cup of water and add 1 cup of white vinegar and let it sit for 10 minutes. Rinse the limes under running water and use a brush to scrub the skin.
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I love lime in G&Ts. I remember my brother and I went a bar that his friend’s band was playing in. It was very hot. He kept saying “these are so refreshing!” You can probably image what that statement sounded like after about his 5th! 🙂
Beth, hehe! They are refreshing! Fun that you had them with your brother!
Thumbs up to your brother Bob!
Hehe, Ginny!
Now that it’s Friday I could use a few of those. YUM!
Lauren, me too!
Gin, tonic and lime is always my drink of choice. It’s a classic, and so refreshing.
Danielle! I love them too and they are so refreshing.
Wow this looks really refreshing. I love any drink made with tonic water. It’s so good. Cheers!
Cheers Natalie! There is something so refreshing and satisfying about tonic water.
It is simple and elegant. My mom loves it and my husband too. I sometimes feel like a gin and tonic kinda night too 🙂
Hehe Edyta! Me too. At first I think, how boring and then I have it and think, why don’t I have this more often?
Good times (and cocktails!) at Bob and Ginny’s. Nice post. The drink looks really good.
Thank you Chris!