Gin

Topic to discuss the wonders of Gin.

Why gin is amazing is that you take a vodka, and then mix it with botanicals and redistill it to make more flavour. it can be quite a complex and varied taste, with around 50 botanicals that are often used

To make the perfect G&T imo you use a just under a double, with loads of ice, quarter to half a lime squeezed in, and fever-tree tonic elderflower.

after trying about 20 of them, this was the winner:

followed by: you can by chase at tescos

and there are weird ones like this, which was so sagey, didnt like.

and this (you can buy this in tescos too, and its cheap) which basically tastes of cardamoms. i quite liked it.

works just fine for me

  On 8/31/2015 at 6:10 PM, lala said:

wat da fuk

yeah, it was the gin experiment

Gin is good shit. If I had £500+ to piss away on a whimsical gin collection I probably would too. One day...

hendricks

bombay saphire for me.

grapefruit juice makes a nice addition to a G&T on occasion.

cheapest one

pinkies raised

oh yeah, and the Elderflower tonic is a good suggestion, had a bottle of that recently and it made some nice G&Ts.

  On 8/31/2015 at 7:19 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

cheapest one

no, just no

gordons is like firewater, horrid

Hendricks is really nice but pricey.

I usually get Tangueray:

Drinking some right now.

This used to be our drink of choice for cocaine-fuelled weekends, the cheapest bottle mixed with lemonade and we'd call it the Miss Havisham, ahh good times. You can't go back.

Chase is made from potatoes. Haven't had it but id be interested in it.

Gin is good, some of them won't bother to re-distill the botanicals in they'll just mix the oils in.

i dont think i've ever had a gin i didn't like at all (but i know they're gonna be out there). i think some are better in g&t and some in martinis

brokers was prob my least favorite but the bowler hat on the lid is fun and its still ok. never had hendricks but want to. for me beefeaters is like the baseline, good all around gin. i like tanq rangpur in g&t and bombay sapphire the most, lately.

most unusual gins i ever had were:

had both several years ago, before i had tried much gin so i couldn't make a good comparison, but both were def good imo. imo both seemed extra spicy, especially the junipero.

http://shortcrossgin.com/

i've gone off gin, but my favourite gin is Plymouth, because they don't go hardcore on the juniper, it's a nice well rounded gin that has a flavour all of it's own. My favourite way to mix it is with elderflower cordial and carbonated mineral water. Nice clean drink.

Definitely try chase, the tall black one, not the green. its really nice. cherry and deep.

you can also get a limited edition chase juniper vodka/single botanical gin, which says vodka on one side and gin on the other.

yeah i've bought a couple of bottles of that chase williams elegant crisp gin before. It's no plymouth though, but it is pretty clean, i bought it because they stopped stocking the plymouth the bastards. I'm in a rum phase at the moment, so it doesn't matter.

Sadly, Gin isn't a high seller in my city I don't think. Most stores just stock the generic Tanqueray or whatever.

I love Gin and have had several higher end decent ones but they're hard to come by. =(

Although I'll admit the Tanqueray #10 stuff is delish..

lol sorry for big pic.... can you not resize it on watmm or wat?

  On 8/31/2015 at 9:14 PM, hello spiral said:

This is the good stuff.

Except they've changed the label a bit so it looks less like something you'd find in a laboratory

  On 8/31/2015 at 11:58 PM, StephenG said:

Sadly, Gin isn't a high seller in my city I don't think. Most stores just stock the generic Tanqueray or whatever.

 

I love Gin and have had several higher end decent ones but they're hard to come by. =(

order from the internets! what we did was read up on the drinks awards and bought the medal winners :) but yeah. try some D1