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Since Weight Watchers introduced the new Personal Points plan it is harder to calculate points. This means I can no longer offer exact WW Points for food lists. (I am working on the recipe part). HOW MANY CALORIES SHOULD I BE CONSUMING PER DAY?
Other pink gin – Sometimes pink gin gets its colourful hue from other sources, such as wine (yes, really) or even just from natural food colouring. While it might sound a bit weird, gin with added colouring isn’t necessarily a bad thing; usually it’s just added to give the gin more vibrancy and shouldn’t affect the flavour at all. How much should I spend? Rhubarb has become a popular combination with gin, with several Scottish gin companies using it to flavour their pink gins and liqueurs. We love this one with the Edinburgh Gin Rhubarb & Ginger Liqueur for the liqueur part! Though there are no major variations of pink gin, many bartenders vary the amount of angostura bitters used. Typically the drink is topped up with iced water, rarely without water. As an extra you could muddle strawberries or raspberries in the bottom of the glass before adding the ice.Gin won’t freeze because its ABV (that’s its ‘alcohol by volume’ level) is at least 37.5% - too high to turn into ice. So don’t worry about keeping your gin in the freezer, you won’t have any exploding bottles! When we eat and drink more calories than we use up, our bodies store the excess as body fat. If this continues, over time we may put on weight.As a guide, an average man needs around 2,500kcal (10,500kJ) a day to maintain a healthy body weight.For an average woman, that figure is around 2,000kcal (8,400kJ) a day.
This simple breakdown should help you to make a better decision when enjoying a little tipple on a night out. For example a shot of Vodka is a far better choice than a Baileys.. in fact those calories are for 1 shot of Baileys and who on earth ever has just that? More importantly, though, gin should never be served at room temperature! So the essential thing is to either use plenty of ice*, or popping the gin (or your glass) in the fridge or freezer before you serve it. Unopened gin has a shelf life of several years - or even longer. So long as the bottle or seal isn’t broken, i.e. no air has been getting in, the alcohol will taste exactly the same when you do finally open it as when you bought it. Lemon rind is also commonly used as a garnish, with the citrus essential oils subtly complementing the flavour.
Top tip: you might even want to consider pouring remaining gin from a half-drunk bottle into a smaller bottle (if you don’t think you’re going to be finishing it up soon). This will help slow the process of oxidisation because the gin will be less exposed to the air.
Using another pink gin liqueur instead of sugar syrup, like with a strawberry or raspberry flavour, depending on what you’re garnishing with or what is flavouring the pink gin is also an option. It’s very unlikely that your gin will go off unless it’s been stored somewhere that has made it get too warm, the seal has been broken, or the opened bottle has been left so long between drinks that the gin has oxidised. We’ve used a classic recipe (egg white included but optional if you like) and added raspberry syrup to give it a pink colour and a more distinctive fruity flavour. You could also use a pink gin if you like, or exchange the syrup for a pink gin liqueur. By all means, keep your lovely bottles on display if you don’t have much room for gin to hold a permanent place in your fridge or freezer. However, don’t let it get too warm, or it might oxidise - it won’t become unsafe to drink, it just won’t taste very nice any more.Distilleries like Edinburgh Gin, Shetland Reel and Harris Gin have become household names and even are giving whisky a run for its money with Scotland producing 70% of the UK’s gin! Here comes the science part! Once your gin bottle is open, the oxidisation process starts. Basically, the gin’s flavour will change (and get slightly worse) very gradually over time.
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