Only time I drank gin regular was on our 4x per year cross border trip to Lomé Togo just across from Ghana. The purpose being to be paid in hard currency (CFA) rather than not-worth-the-paper-they-were-printed-on Ghanaian cedis.

There was a dive on the waterfront not far from the border, gin was the drink of choice, straight from the bottle. Holy crap did we get blitzed.

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744