House Tonic Challenge: Fever Tree vs. 365

As a result of parenthood, I have been drinking a lot of gin-less tonics.  Fever Tree is a premium tonic that costs about $5.60 for 4-6.8 oz bottles.  365 is Whole Foods store brand, you get 6 12-oz cans for around $3.50.  So you get 3x the tonic for 1/2 the price.  Chalk up a point for the 365.

Basically, I'm drinking tonic water with a squeeze of lime juice.  Both tonics are made with cane sugar instead of corn syrup.  If you do your serving size math, the fever tree has slightly more sugar, but I think that the 365 tastes sweeter.  I like them both, but I gotta go with the value of the 365 brand.

365 is the new house tonic.  Yay!

What do you do if you don't have a Whole Foods in your town?  Move out of the sticks Bubba.

Fever-Tree Tonic

Two Parts Rye now has a new house tonic.  The previous tonic was Q tonic.  Which was the only tonic that I could find that was not made with corn syrup.  It's made with Agave syrup, and it's not at all sweet.  Fever-Tree is made with cane sugar, and it's just right.  It's not fake sweet like Schwepp's or the other mass market tonic waters.  Yet it does have some sweetness.

The only down side is that I have to fight my way over to the West Side to get to Whole Foods, which is the only store in town that has it in stock.

I re-tested Whitley Neill and Rogue Spruce for the house gin challenge, Whitley Neill is still the winner.  The martini portion of the challenge will occur one of these days.  It's difficult to work up the desire to drink 4 martini's.  The sacrifices that I make for my loyal readers.