Elevate your vodka and soda game at The Pregnantman pub where the team have conceived three twists on this classic long drink using broken clock vodka, all of which are being expertly delivered as part of a limited edition pop-up menu.
This canny concoction, titled Conception, combines Broken Clock's country garden essences with the crisp taste of Something and Nothing cucumber soda and a zesty lime garnish.
The concept of mixing one's favourite spirit with soda water was born out of 18th Century London, when Swiss jeweller-come-amateur-scientist Jacob Schweppe chose to locate his pioneering sparkling mineral water business in the bubbling froth of the English capital.
He'd developed a unique mechanical method of carbonating spa waters for different medical uses as well as for imbibing at one's dinner table, with contemporaries at the time describing Schweppe's skilful impregnation of air into his soda water as being of even higher quality than French Champagne.
Advertising at the time describes this selzer water as being a perfect remedy to revitalise anyone exhausted by much speaking, heated dancing or quitting hot rooms.
And this masterful exercise in craft and successful marketing made Jacob and his family wildly rich, with soda water becoming all the rage at tables across the country and with the eventual addition of ingredients such as ginger and quinine giving birth the soft drinks and mixers one can enjoy today with a suitable measure of awfully english vodka.
And only a stone throw from the location of London's original soda factory is the stylish neighbourhood drinking hole and eatery The Pregnant Man on Chancery Lane, where one can enjoy these three Broken Clock snifters throughout the next month.
