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What is your go to gin?

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  • biak1biak1 Member Posts: 4,237
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    The Botanist is fucking amazing.
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,903 Founders Club
    Junipero
    biak1 said:

    The Botanist is fucking amazing.

    That's the stuff from Islay right? Does it taste like Laphroaig?
  • Mad_SonMad_Son Member Posts: 10,194
    Bombay Saphire
    Although I've got a special place in my heart for sesgrams extra dry
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 46,545 Standard Supporter
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    That's the stuff from Islay right? Does it taste like Laphroaig?
    It drinks like a cab.
  • Dennis_DeYoungDennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754
    Bombay Saphire
    Uncle Val's is really good, but... and I want to make this clear...

    AS THE RESIDENT COCKTAIL EXPERT...

    Bombay Sapphire is really fucking great in gimlets and martinis. It has a great balance between floral, citrus and pepper.

    Personally I don't like gin much and I hate shit like the Last Word and it's current cult, but I do like Negronis and I respect that gin exists.

    Uncle Val's is the shit in a Clover Club, too.
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,903 Founders Club
    Junipero

    Uncle Val's is really good, but... and I want to make this clear...

    AS THE RESIDENT COCKTAIL EXPERT...

    Bombay Sapphire is really fucking great in gimlets and martinis. It has a great balance between floral, citrus and pepper.

    Personally I don't like gin much and I hate shit like the Last Word and it's current cult, but I do like Negronis and I respect that gin exists.

    Uncle Val's is the shit in a Clover Club, too.

    AS THE RESIDENT MARTINI EXPURT...

    I find Bombay 2 be 2 forward in the botanicals. Junipero out of San Francisco has the perfect complexity and balance without too much of the seasonings.
  • whlinderwhlinder Member Posts: 5,145 Standard Supporter
    Hendrick's
    I prefer a nice Hendricks with cuCUMbers and diet tonic. When I fag out I like to fully fag out.

    The Hendricks in Europe is a touch smoother.
  • Dennis_DeYoungDennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754
    Bombay Saphire

    AS THE RESIDENT MARTINI EXPURT...

    I find Bombay 2 be 2 forward in the botanicals. Junipero out of San Francisco has the perfect complexity and balance without too much of the seasonings.
    You're not a fucking martini expert you shit bag. If you are, good on you... but you aren't.

    Let's do the three question (generally non-googleable) czechlist:

    1. How do you store your Vermouth?
    2. What drink is a Martini descendent from?
    3. What kind of orange bitters do you like?

    I AM THE TOTAL COCKTAIL EXPERT!!! ROAR!!!
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,903 Founders Club
    Junipero

    You're not a fucking martini expert you shit bag. If you are, good on you... but you aren't.

    Let's do the three question (generally non-googleable) czechlist:

    1. How do you store your Vermouth?
    2. What drink is a Martini descendent from?
    3. What kind of orange bitters do you like?

    I AM THE TOTAL COCKTAIL EXPERT!!! ROAR!!!
    1) I store my Dolin brand dry vermouth in the fridge and try to use it up in about 2 weeks. If this is improper, fuck off.
    2) I don't know w/o the Googles, but once I was sitting in a hotel bar in the early 90's (still in HS) on Lake Como and I order a martini and it was vermouth on the rocks? What were those waps thinking?
    3) The cheap ones from Trinidad, you hipster fag. Have a native Trinidadian gift you 2 ginormous bottles of Angostura and then popoff.
  • AZDuckAZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    My go-to gin is either gin or the ginormous bottle of New Amsterdam they sell at Costco.

    When I'm feeling fancy, I drink Hendrick's.
  • BennyBeaverBennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    Boodle's

    AS THE RESIDENT COCKTAIL EXPERT...

    AS THE RESIDENT MARTINI EXPURT...

    I AM THE TOTAL COCKTAIL EXPERT!!! ROAR!!!

    Source?
  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,404
    Bombay Saphire
    storing vermouth is a fools errand.

    just drink a bunch more over a few days.
  • Mad_SonMad_Son Member Posts: 10,194
    Bombay Saphire
    AZDuck said:

    My go-to gin is either gin or the ginormous bottle of New Amsterdam they sell at Costco.

    When I'm feeling fancy, I drink Hendrick's.

    I knew we had yet more in common.
  • Dennis_DeYoungDennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754
    Bombay Saphire
    1. Vermouth should be gassed with Private Preserve (argon, I believe). Otherwise, it's wine, you know. So, however long you savages would drink wine for that's been refrigerated. Refrigerating vermouth is for retards. Dolin is the shit, though! I love it.
    2. Martinez!
    3. Gaz Regan's is probably the best, but I like the Ango ones too. But, in a martini - gotta be Gaz's.

    Manhattans and Martinis are the same drink, essentially, both descendent from the Martinez, just in different directions.

    Manhattan is 2:1 Rye/Sweet Vermouth, barspoon of curaçao if you're not a savage, then ango bitters.
    Martini is 2:1 Gin/Dry Vermouth, barspoon of Maraschino if you're feeling nostalgic, but it makes it weird... then orange bitters.
  • pawzpawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 21,998 Founders Club
    Bombay Saphire
    Swaye said:

    This exchange is one of the gayest things I've ever read.

    Have you read the Tug since the herpes won?


    That's what I thought.


  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,404
    Bombay Saphire

    1. Vermouth should be gassed with Private Preserve (argon, I believe). Otherwise, it's wine, you know. So, however long you savages would drink wine for that's been refrigerated. Refrigerating vermouth is for retards. Dolin is the shit, though! I love it.
    2. Martinez!
    3. Gaz Regan's is probably the best, but I like the Ango ones too. But, in a martini - gotta be Gaz's.

    Manhattans and Martinis are the same drink, essentially, both descendent from the Martinez, just in different directions.

    Manhattan is 2:1 Rye/Sweet Vermouth, barspoon of curaçao if you're not a savage, then ango bitters.
    Martini is 2:1 Gin/Dry Vermouth, barspoon of Maraschino if you're feeling nostalgic, but it makes it weird... then orange bitters.

    Cunt
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