Gin Lane!

[Alain Maréchal]

Jenever is drunk neat of course, but the point of the G&T is not that the alcohol is diluted - it's the refreshing quality of the relatively large amount of liquid involved! In hot weather I can drink them all day, or until I can't hold a glass any more, whichever comes first.

Jenever isn't drunk for refreshment, but for stimulation; that would be the major difference, plus the season. It is best consumed very chilled on a winter's morning after the first walk of the day (or at other times one is very chilled). For refreshment God invented beer! (For the digestion, wine, according to St. Paul).

[Zucchini]

... interesting; to be investigated. Do you have a preference for the tonic water? And the sliver, lemon or lime?

Fever-Tree and lime but I don't drink so forget the gin ...

[ahinton]

I should have added to my remark about ice that pollution is one of the great global scourges of our time and that adding a little unfiltered tap water to a fine single malt is a particularly heinous example thereof.

But back to the topic...