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Paipo & Tonic Perfect & Refreshing
The Paipo Gin & Tonic you can master
The ultimate Paipo Coastal Gin & Tonic you can make with traditional techniques uses Paipo gin that you’ve stored in your freezer and tonic water poured from a fresh bottle that you’ve kept in ice water (if you really must, use tonic water that has merely been refrigerated, but keep it in the coldest part of your fridge - the part that accidentally freezes the lettuce from time to time). By “fresh bottle” I don’t mean unopened, I mean recently purchased. Plastic bottles lose their carbonation at an alarming rate, and smaller bottles lose carbonation faster than larger ones. If you buy tonic water in a premium glass bottles or cans - both of which are gas-impermeable - storage time isn’t important.
Preparations & pouring
Several minutes before drink time, make sure your Highball glass is in the freezer getting cold. Cut your lime into quarters, of which you will need one per drink. At drink time, pull the glass and gin out of freezer and pour 50 ml. of Paipo Coastal Gin into the glass before you pour in the tonic. Next, tilt your glass to a 45-degree angle and slowly pour 150 ml. of ice-cold tonic water into the glass. The order of operation is important. You want the two ingredients to mix thoroughly without any bubble-liberating activities like stirring.
Adding lime & ice
Next, squeeze as much juice as you’d like into the drink from a quarter of a lime. Adding lime before tonic would help the drink to mix better, but lime juice contains bubble nucleation sites and bubble-stabilising surfactants that would wreak havoc with the tonic’s carbonation if it were added earlier.
Then add freezer-cold ice - not tempered ice. Don’t drop the ice into the drink like a Neanderthal. Gently slide it in using a bar spoon. It’s important that you add the ice last; if it goes into the glass before the liquids, it will promote foaming as the tonic is poured and present a barrier to mixing. Added at the end, the ice promotes mixing. If you use ice directly out of freezer, it will add very little dilution. The ice cubes will crack from thermal shock, but that’s okay in this application. Drop the lime quarter into the top of the glass if you like this sort of thing.
Don’t measure the tonic with jigger - it will cause too much carbonation loss. Instead, before you make your drink measure 150ml of water into the glass and note where the wash line is. Try free-pouring water to that same level by eye. After a couple attempts you will be ready to make the drink.
Dave Arnold “Liquid Intelligence”
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