Once you have chosen the basics, you may want to consider your stance on the gin and tonic’s optional-to-some, necessary-to-others third ingredient: fresh lime. If you’re opting to add it ...

In its purest form, a gin and tonic is simply gin, tonic, lime, and ice. The cocktail has a slightly tangy taste, almost a bit medicinal thanks to the botanical nature of gin mixed with the bitterness ...

Perhaps there is no more quintessentially British drink than the gin and tonic, muses intrepid cocktail culture columnist Beth Logan.

There's a lime on the rim in that picture, but I'm not gonna add any juice yet. That citrus is my gin and tonic go-to (and yours, I imagine), but I don't know how that's gonna mix with olives ...