Jul/15/2008 Filed in: Fever Tree
| mixers
Mixer-ing it up
By Dan Dunn
You know, over the years people have often asked me what type of mixers I prefer with my cocktails, to which I would invariably respond by punching them in the nuts. Or, if they didn’t have nuts, making fun of their hair and/or telling them they looked fat in a dress. Ah, but lately my court-ordered anger-management coach has been advising me to be more open with people, and to avoid violence and insults altogether if possible. To that end I’ve decided to come clean about my mixer-maker of choice… and to offer a public apology to my next door neighbor, Glenn. I’m sorry, man…you look really cool with a mullet.
In my opinion, Fever Tree makes the best mixers out there. First off, Fever Tree mixers are made with all-natural ingredients…and if Bo Derek taught us anything when she came running up that beach in “10,” it’s that all-natural beats fake any day of the week. And dammit if that isn’t that the first reference to “10” I’ve made in about two decades? Secondly, Fever Tree mixers are highly carbonated and a result won’t get diluted by ice too quickly. That’s important, because watered-down drinks suck worse than the fact that Derek’s “10” co-star Dudley Moore isn’t making movies anymore. Whatever happened to that guy? Man, he was funny as hell! (A quick Google search just revealed, sadly, that Dudley Moore died of pneumonia on March 27, 2002, the same day that Milton Berle and Billy Wilder called it a life). So allow me to revise my watered-down drinks statement — watered-down drinks suck worse than March 27, 2002, which I think we can all agree was a lousy day.
While Fever Tree makes a number of great mixers, from ginger ale to bitter lemon, my favorite is their tonic water in a classic gin and tonic. Instead of using a highball glass, try preparing it in a red wine balloon glass instead, which is how they drink it in Spain (regular visitors to this site are no doubt aware of my recent travels to that country). A G&T in the wine glass really opens up the aromatics, and that makes the whole experience that much more enjoyable.
And with that, I leave you with words uttered by the late great Dudley Moore in “Arthur”… Not all of us who drink are poets. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
By Dan Dunn
You know, over the years people have often asked me what type of mixers I prefer with my cocktails, to which I would invariably respond by punching them in the nuts. Or, if they didn’t have nuts, making fun of their hair and/or telling them they looked fat in a dress. Ah, but lately my court-ordered anger-management coach has been advising me to be more open with people, and to avoid violence and insults altogether if possible. To that end I’ve decided to come clean about my mixer-maker of choice… and to offer a public apology to my next door neighbor, Glenn. I’m sorry, man…you look really cool with a mullet.
In my opinion, Fever Tree makes the best mixers out there. First off, Fever Tree mixers are made with all-natural ingredients…and if Bo Derek taught us anything when she came running up that beach in “10,” it’s that all-natural beats fake any day of the week. And dammit if that isn’t that the first reference to “10” I’ve made in about two decades? Secondly, Fever Tree mixers are highly carbonated and a result won’t get diluted by ice too quickly. That’s important, because watered-down drinks suck worse than the fact that Derek’s “10” co-star Dudley Moore isn’t making movies anymore. Whatever happened to that guy? Man, he was funny as hell! (A quick Google search just revealed, sadly, that Dudley Moore died of pneumonia on March 27, 2002, the same day that Milton Berle and Billy Wilder called it a life). So allow me to revise my watered-down drinks statement — watered-down drinks suck worse than March 27, 2002, which I think we can all agree was a lousy day.
While Fever Tree makes a number of great mixers, from ginger ale to bitter lemon, my favorite is their tonic water in a classic gin and tonic. Instead of using a highball glass, try preparing it in a red wine balloon glass instead, which is how they drink it in Spain (regular visitors to this site are no doubt aware of my recent travels to that country). A G&T in the wine glass really opens up the aromatics, and that makes the whole experience that much more enjoyable.
And with that, I leave you with words uttered by the late great Dudley Moore in “Arthur”… Not all of us who drink are poets. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
