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bomb said:
so is it just a case of good marketing that has snared the public ?
emperors new clothes. Honestly I can taste bugger all difference, but everyone wants to be seen as a hipster and doesn't want to be "that guy". Ooooh my G&T must be fever tree tonic and foggy bottom botanist sipsmith with two slices of anticlockwise turned cucumber and the merest whisper of lime...bomb said:
So......I have tried 'Fever Tree' and I think it just tastes like....well, Tonic water.
Am I missing something here ?
Cannot see/taste, anything special. I'll be sticking with the regular stuff.
I tried Fever Tree a year or two ago.Am I missing something here ?
Cannot see/taste, anything special. I'll be sticking with the regular stuff.
IMHO, it was overpriced rubbish. Schweppes is better, in my opinion.
Waitrose "Essentials" tonic water is badged Schweppes, and only costs 50p a litre.
Lots of tonic waters will have a different taste - some are sweeter than others, some have more fizz, you don't want to pair a sweet tonic with a gin at the sweeter end of the scale.
Then you have the 'slice' - lemon, lime or cucumber? - all add a different hint to the flavour.
It's all about balancing the quinine and sweetener concentrations.
Then you have the 'slice' - lemon, lime or cucumber? - all add a different hint to the flavour.
It's all about balancing the quinine and sweetener concentrations.
Prefer Schweppes with almost every Gin. Have tried fever tree loads of times and definitely think it's the fancy bottle "premium" factor that has made it popular. Most gin experts are now over the whole "premium" tonic thing and back to serving Schweppes too.
Brockmans, slice of pink grapefruit and Schweppes for me.
Brockmans, slice of pink grapefruit and Schweppes for me.
Murph7355 said:
uncinqsix said:
But WTF is it with British full fat Schweppes having saccharin in it? Gives it a horrible aftertaste. I seem to recall the only unsullied ones were Waitrose own brand and fever tree.
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