Schweppes Indian Tonic Water

We often drink vodka and tonic or gin and tonic in our house and for many years now we've been buying supermarket own brand tonic rather than the more expensive Schweppes. The own brand tonic usually costs around 45p a bottle and is often on offer as a buy 3 for a £1 so it's very inexpensive and until recently I'd have said there was no difference. It's just tonic water right? The other night we ran out of tonic and I sent my other half to the supermarket to get some. He came back with a couple of bottles of Schweppes because the own brand stuff had sold out. Each 1 litre bottle cost 90p so it's twice the price of the supermarkets own ...  Read the complete review

Schweppes Indian tonic water contains quinine. In the days of the Raj, the officers and their ladies would be found on their verandahs, sheltering from the tropical sun and swigging back copious amounts of gin and tonic whilst discussing the shortcomings of the punkah wallah. The quinine was in there to counteract the devestations of malaria. So the gin and tonic was purely medicinal. (Yeah, right!) I have to tell you though, it works! I often sit on my verandah in the North of England, sheltering from the snow and drinking my anti-malarial G+T and I have never been troubled with malaria! Not once! Pneumonia, yes, but never malaria! It was first made in ...  Read the complete review

I am a regular drinker of Indian Tonic Water and usually stick to supermarket own brands - purely for the price. Schweppes Indian Tonic Water sells at around 89p in supermarkets - obviously dependant on where you shop. Supermarket own brands can go for 39p - 45p each, often with multibuy offers on. I also tend to stick to the slimline or diet versions as I do drink so much of the stuff! I suffer quite badly with cramp and take Quinine tablets for this and out of habit more than neccessity I drink a glass of tonic water each night before bed. The levels of quinine in tonic water are now so low that I doubt it actually helps at all and it is more the ...  Read the complete review

Schwepps has been around for a long time, and in my opinion, you can't have a bombay tonic without a slimline tonic - its just wrong. Gin and tonic is a favourite generally - the fizz and sweet perfumey smell, cold icecubes and a wedge of lime - along with schwepps - make it. However nice it may be, there are a few glaring problems with this product - the main one being how pricey it is. Supermarket own brand tonic waters are at least half the price of schwepps, if not even more so - the little bottles of schwepps can cost upwards of a pound, whereas the own brands are often going for 45p or less, so if you aren't fussy about taste, you might want to forgo schwepps ...  Read the complete review