Half an hour later, room service arrived with still and sparkling Voss--"just in case you don't like that kind, " said its bearer, winning me over with his wide grin as he motioned toward the pitcher of cucumber-mint water on the table.
An even better idea is to skip the sugar, water, and mint altogether and enjoy the spirit straight up in the Scottish style, or maybe opened with a mere drop or two of water, or for the less civilized, on the rocks.