Gin and Tonic co*cktail - My Brother Bob's Basic Recipe - Dishes Delish (2024)

This is my brother Bob’s gin and tonic co*cktail 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 co*cktails, 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 co*cktail

Pre-step

Get a co*cktail 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 co*cktail.

YUM!

Let’s look at the vertical view.

I take a sip the gin and tonic co*cktail and sigh.

So good!

I hope you enjoyed this recipe.

Other delicious lime co*cktails

• French gimlet
• Cucumber dill
• Woo woo
• Cucumber gimlet
• Last word

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