Infuse A Bottle Of Flat Tonic Water To Upgrade Your Home Mocktail Bar - Chowhound

Tonic water has two key flavor components: sugar, which provides sweetness, and quinine, which gives it a bitter tinge. For those who know their way around a liquor shelf, you'll notice that these two basic tastes make up the flavor base of many botanical spirits. Take absinthe, for example, with bitter wormwood and the sweet-tasting anise as its core flavors. Aquavit (especially the barrel-aged kind) also has a…