Bananarum and Chocolate Old Fashioned

A built drink is made in the glass over one big cube and is designed to change slowly as it waters down. Dave Arnold walks through his Cliff Old-Fashioned and the rules that keep a built drink balanced.

From rosemary to saffron, Arnd Heißen builds drinks around herbs and spices, each with a story. These are the ideas and techniques behind the chapter.

Dave Arnold says a truly good gin and tonic is impossible with traditional methods, but a careful one is possible: frozen gin and glass, fresh ice-cold tonic, a fixed order of pouring, and the lime last. He also gives the force-carbonated version.