The next time the moon is up in your vicinity, try accompanying it with a gin cocktail. The drink of the British overseas because it was simple to pack, a gin cocktail is a palate seducing mixture of juniper berries, orange peel, lemon zest, coriander, clove and other assorted botanicals.
Your bartender may start to look it up but you can save both of you some time by explaining that a gin cocktail is simply two shots of Hendrick's (or Plymouth if you are off the beaten track somewhere) and two dashes of bitters stirred with ice and strained into a cocktail glass with a twist of lemon peel.
Enjoy the moon.
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This seems to be a variation on a 'pink gin'.
It does seem to be simply a double Pink Gin…. the classic drink of Royal Navy officers ashore….
If one looks at the classic Savoy Cocktail book, this is a variation on what is listed there as the "gin Cocktail", which specifically used orange bitters, as opposed to the more common angostura bitters.
http://savoystomp.com/2008/11/06/gin-cocktail/
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