Mine was with Lord Calvert Gin, so happily avoiding that that terrible spirit for the rest of my life.

But back to mixers, I had always heard that 100+ years ago men never mixed anything with their whiskey, but women needed to dilute it a bit and they were encouraged to add sweet mixers. Somewhere along the way, perhaps it was prohibition and bathtub gin, men too began to add mixers.

I used to add coke to bourbon, then I realized how much Coke I was drinking on a night out and then I switched to straight whiskey. And then I moved upscale and really appreciated the straight stuff.