You’re never alone if you love gin (Illustration by Liberty Antonia Sadler for Metro.co.uk)

Gin is your life-force, your friend. The drink you turn to to start a night, to precede a meal, to accompany a meal and to see the night off.

It makes your days better and your nights wilder. It makes you new friends and helps you keep the ones you’ve got.

It tastes like nothing else. And you can’t get enough.

Here’s 17 signs you are in a relationship with gin.


1 You think about gin when you’re not with it

‘Ooh, can’t wait for my gin when I get home tonight.’ – you, 11am.

2 You secretly think gin is superior to all other drinks

Actually you don’t secretly think it. You know it. So sophisticated.

3 You truly believe gin units don’t count

You don’t consider drinking a gin and tonic to be actually drinking alcohol, hence you can have two before you even open the wine.



4 You don’t understand how other people can’t like gin

But… it’s gin!

5 …and you try to convert them.

‘But you haven’t tried this gin’.

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So sad. This would never happen at your house (Picture: flickr/wimi_karlstad)

6 You genuinely care about its future

Juniper bushes are endangered? But.. what about the gin? Isn’t there anything we can DO?

7 And you will go out of your way to buy it specialist tonics

You know every shop in your area that sells Fever Tree and you will willingly pilgrimage miles for 1724 or Q, even when there’s a perfectly good big plastic bottle of Tesco’s own in the house.

Your friends won’t understand. Don’t try to make them.

8 You can’t stop talking about gin

You have gin mentionitis. ‘I had this amazing gin and tonic with cucumber and hibiscus last night’; or ‘have you tried Hayman’s 1850 Reserve?

Cue blank looks from your wine-drinking friends.

9 And you pride yourself on being able to offer unusual gins to visitors

Caorunn? Gin Mare? Martin Miller’s? William’s Chase? (Sorry Gordon).

10 You always have cucumber in your fridge

And you get p*ssed off if anyone actually eats it. IT WAS FOR MY HENDRICK’S, FFS.

11 And you always have limes in your fruit bowl…

‘There are no limes?! How can there be no limes?’ is a real living nightmare you’ve been through once and never want to experience again.

12 Which you would NEVER use with Hendrick’s

You know there’s a special place in hell reserved for anyone who serves you Hendrick’s with lime instead of cucumber.

13 You have a pathological fear of running out of ice

But you’ll drink it warm if you have to, because, well, because gin.

14 You find yourself bonding with other gin lovers because only they will understand you

Gin night? Why yes.

15 And you find a grudging respect for even the most hated people if you find out they are gin-lovers

They can’t be all bad.

16 Because to you, gin is so much more than just a drink

And gin-drinkers are part of the family.

17 And you know that gin makes everything better

Literally everything.

Bad day? Gin. Good day? Gin. Tired? Gin. Sick? Gin.

Just gin.

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