Gin Fizz

Hendricks
Scotland

Bombay Sapphire
England

Tanqueray
England

Xoriguer
Menorca (España)

Gordons 
England

Gordons Pink 
England

Seagrams 
USA

Larios 
Málaga (España)

Puerto De Indias Pink 
Sevilla (España)

Eva 
Mallorca (España)

Brockmans 
England

Beefeater 
England

Martin Miller 
England

Gvine
France

Bulldog 
England

 

GIN & TONIC HISTORY

The cocktail was created by officers from the armies of the Presidency, the military force of the East India Company operating in the Indian subcontinent.

In the Indian subcontinent and other tropical regions, malaria was a persistent problem for Europeans, and in the 18th century, Scottish physician George Cleghorn studied how quinine, a traditional cure for malaria, could be used to prevent the disease.

Quinine was drunk in tonic water, but the bitter taste was unpleasant. Officers in the presidential armies in India in the early 19th century began adding a mixture of water, sugar, lime, and gin to quinine to make the drink more palatable, and thus the gi and tonic cocktail was born.

Officers were already getting a ration of gin as part of their rations, and the sweet concoction made sense