I’m a gin girl, me! (Beefeater Dry London Gin)

Member Name: Elli

Product:	Beefeater Dry London Gin
Date:	20/05/01 (493 review reads)
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Advantages: wonderful flavour

Disadvantages: can’t drink more than one

Take one heavy crystal tumbler (please, not a chain store 99p glass - we’re talking luxury experience here!), fill to the brim with ice cubes, slosh in a good slug of Beefeater gin (be heavy-handed - don’t measure) and the same again of lime juice (Rose’s for preference), top up with tonic water to taste. Finally, a few slices of lemon, and/or lime, to add some zest and make it look pretty.

Add one sunny day, a comfortable chair on the patio, a large parasol and a good book.

A little bit of paradise!

Beefeaters gin has a powerful juniper-y taste. It is also spicy, fruity and dry. To me it has a more interesting flavour than Gordons. Our current bottle is 47 per cent proof (wow!), but I don’t think it is always this strong. Usually it is 40 per cent. There is a Beefeater website (www.beefeater.com) which contains recipes for cocktails, including gimlet, pink lady and cosmopolitan, as well as the definitive method for making a gin-and-tonic or gin fizz.

Supermarkets don’t always sell it, but off-licences do and it is often on special offer at airports or on Channel ferries.

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