G&T.

Funny how drinks have a sort of social life.  Gin, which back in my youth was very much "auntie's drink" - associated with aged female relatives, - is now apparently the drink of choice for many youngsters, of both sexes.  Of course, they tend to drink it with tonic water, not perhaps realising that this combination basically started out life as medicine.  Quinine, made from the bark of the cinchona tree, is particularly efficacious against the  symptoms of malaria, but has a very bitter taste.  Malaria was rife among the colonials in India so they would take quinine but to mask the taste they would dilute it with sugar water and mix it with gin,  Tonic water today still contains quinine in small quantities and this is what gives gin-and-tonic its distinctive flavour.