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Most people believe the "best" gin is Bombay Sapphire which happens to be relatively heavy on the juniper and "hot" on the palate. Some people don't like the smell of juniper in their drink.

You know all those people who go apeshit when they first try Hendrick's and they proclaim they'll only ever drink Hendrick's from now on? Yeah, those are the same people.

>>4690100
I love cocktails. But I can't stand Gin.
I had a real, original martini the other night.
>2 oz gin
>a splash of dry vermouth swirled and dumped from the glass
>olive garnish
>shaken and strained into martini glass

It was repulsive. I must have made the face like I had just bitten into a lemon. Maybe its a taste you need to acquire, but it wasn't a pleasant experience for me.

>>4690121

gin and tonic
and martinis
are GOAT mixed drinks... so gin haters can fuck off

but i would certainly not sip on pure gin...
that's like drinking straight vodka (if you're not a russian bear wrestler)

>>4690121
try a gin drink like a french 75 so you can ease into it.

The only time I drink Gin, is in Gin and Tonics. They ended up being much tastier than I expected. Probably my #1 drink

Gin is fucking amazing but I can get tired of it relatively quickly. But then I'm back on the gin train.

It is GOD TIER with fruit juices. Freshly squeezed ANYTHING plus gin is going to be great and make vodka look like shit.
Gin for the light drinks, whiskey for the dark. All other spirits can get in line.

Only Gin drink I can enjoy is a long island iced tea
>1/2 gin, rum, vodka, triple sec
>fill sweet and sour
>splash cola on top
>lemon wheel

It tastes dangerously like real icedt

>>4690128

Gin and tonic? Stupid question, but that drink is just gin + tonic water fill right?

>>4690270
Yes. Just wondering, what's your preferred ratio, /ck/?

>>4690270
>>4690273
Varies, I either fill the cup to 1/3 or 1/2 full with gin+ice, and then the rest is just tonic water.
I also like lime in mine, it's worth buying 1 or 2 if you know you're gonna make some. A quarter of the lime is good for me

Cant get into gin
Tastes like im drinking a pine tree

I like it. Gin and tonic is fine, but personally I like to drink gin with ginger ale.

>>4690284
That's the reason I love it

You can get sick easier from Gin, it's not a very clean alcohol.

>>4690292
Maybe if you make it yourself or some shit.

>>4690292

and tequila makes you go crazy, right?

ask me how I know you're 19 years old.

>>4690305
Metalocalypse is always correct.

Now if you'll excuse me I have some bleach to drink.

>>4690100
Love Gordon's. Good enough for Bond, good enough for you. It's not the best for martinis I'm partial to Tanqueray but it's a powerhorse mixing gin, specially gimlets/

>>4690314
>Gimlets

Man how do you people tolerate these drinks. A gimlet is just straight vodka or gin + lime juice. I tried one the other night it was a terrible experience.

>>4690316
Citrus IME negates the alcoholic bite. I use Roses, so a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down

Mostly just vodkafags banging on about "muh hangover"

People who aren't neckbeards or Slav(e)s are fine with gin.

>>4690321
I used real limes, 3 wedges squeezed and dropped into the glass + ice on top. Maybe thats why it didn't work so well for me.

>>4690134
gin with grapefruit juice is a GOAT mixed drink

Bombay Sapphire with tonic and a slice of lime in the jacuzzi on a warm summer day...mmmm my little slice of heaven

>>4690327
>real limes

I was about to rage for saying "real" and then

>>4690321
>Roses

I raged

>>4690333

Whats wrong with real limes? why would that mke you rage?

>>4690333
why you talking shit bout muh roses?

>>4690339

In general, people who habitually throw "real" in front of food names like it's a good thing are advertising that they eat garbage normally.

In your case, I read the conversation backwards so I was missing some important context.

>>4690341

When I was first getting into mixing I bought a bottle of that because it's "a classic" or some shit.

At first I was like "what the fuck is this shit", and then I was like "well it's a classic so I better finish it so I can see what the fuss is all about.

It took me a month to finish it. When I was done, it felt like defeat.

>>4690350
Theres nothing wrong with roses in cocktails that require it in smaller amounts.

For instance, margaritas, about 1/2 oz. Its convenient and a time saver.

>>4690355

A time saver compared to squeezing a lime that takes like 10 seconds?

I can understand if you're a lone bartender on a cut rate cruise ship and you have to serve a room full of 300 tanned wrinkled old floozies by yourself in record time, but for a respectable bar, let alone drinking at home, there's no excuse.

>>4690358

New to crafting cocktails, I seek your council. Generally most drinks that call for lime juice require 1/2 oz.

When you use real limes and squeeze them, what does that come out too? Do you cut a real lime in half in wedge and squeeze that, or just a wedge?

Thanks

>>4690366

I'm not that much of a nazi about it, I'll just do half a lime for a small cocktail glass, or a full lime for a large one. If we're talking about margaritas, which should only be served up. I am a nazi about that.

I think it's because gin isn't usually good straight and the cheapest gins are repulsive to an extent moreso than cheap vodka or whiskey or rum.

gin and tonic with a decent gin is the best thing ever though.

Gin seems to be a very love or hate liquor, more so than anything else I've noticed.

I personally love it, and prefer a g&t over any other drink. I'll even go cheap, I really don't mind. Seagram's isn't bad, and Broker's is actually pretty good.

>>4690370

Full lime, squeeze hard for a margarita then? I typically do them on the rocks in a collins glass

Gin is awesome for cocktails. G&T with limes, lemons or cucumbers are very refreshing and so are Tom Collins. A well made martini is delicious and gin 7up is a good party/club drink.
My go to gin is Tanqueray but I recently discovered Citadelle. If Tanqueray is too piney for you I would suggest Citadelle.

>>4690381
>squeeze hard

I'm not sure what this means. If your limes are too hard, roll them on the table while pushing down with your hand before cutting them in half. It tenderizes them and makes them easier to squeeze.

If you're ever planning to make citrus based cocktails for more than 2 people, a juicer is probably a good investment.

>>4690373
I bought the cheapest bottle I could recently (Burnette's or something) and no real complaints besides the heavy alcohol taste.

>>4690147
Oh God fuck I love Long Islands. You can use cheap everything and you won't taste the difference. Still tastes refreshing and barely alcoholic until you're ass up in someone else's pool.

The only downside is if you puke it WILL be extremely sour.

>>4690389
Burnetts that basically drinkable rubbing alcohol

For bottom shelf gin, I go for segrams, gordons and new amsterdam

>>4690389
you're the worst kind of person

>>4690105
>Bombay Sapphire which happens to be relatively heavy on the juniper
Bombay is anything but heavy on the juniper, it's babbys first gin.

>>4690431

And it's also heavy on the juniper. You and I have had this argument before and you eventually conceded that you're the one with the weird palate. Remember? It was like 3 or 4 months ago.

>>4690433
I have a bottle of tanqueray and a bottle of sapphire in front of me, guess which actually tastes like juniper and not like watered down gin?

>>4690418
>>4690422
It was either that or Fleishman's and I've had bad experiences with their whiskey.

the GOAT gin

>>4690438

Which tanqueray? Because tanq ten certainly tastes like watered down gin.

In addition, there are more flavors than just "a fuckload of juniper" and "vodka flavor", you may want to branch out from the big supermarket brands.

>>4690389
>Burnette's

are there any gins cheaper than bombay/tanqueray that are still good?

>>4690447
Regular import ofc.

>>4690457

Why would you buy both of those and keep them at home? You're either an extreme collector and you ran out of good stuff to buy, or you have a shitty liquor store.

>>4690483
Because once you're past a certain age, it's not abnormal to have multiple types of alcohol for different drink mixes in your house?

I keep the sapphire for mixing with bitter lemon, the tanqueray goes with tonic.

>>4690486

Nothing wrong with variety. I prefer hendrick's with tonic, old raj for martinis, hayman's for tom collins, and vodka for bitter lemon. But then, when you get to be my age, it's normal to prefer something a little less entry level ;)

>>4690502
it's called being a poorfag.

>>4690509

Aside from the old raj, none of those should be appreciably more expensive than sapphire. Unless you're that guy from Ireland who said he had to go to the mafia to get something as pedestrian as Gosling's, in that case, I'm sorry.

>>4690519
Even worse, I'm norwegian. I'm pretty sure you have to visit dubai for higher alcohol taxes and less selection.

>>4690524

Well, at least you have a better selection of preserved herring products. I remember the bar lady at Gardermoen airport looking at me like I was crazy for stuffing those things down my throat before getting on the plane home.

Ginbro here, it's pretty much all I drink at home since I've stopped buying beer (dem calories)

Pic related is my current bottle collection and the Seagram's is what I'm working on right now. It's weird, it seems much more drinkable than the others pictured for some weird reason. I drink all of mine with ice and a squeeze of lime. I used to do G&Ts all the time but once I bought the Tanqueray I began to appreciate the glory that is the gin gimlet.

you either like it or you don't. juniper berries and pine needles, or dry gin and tonic. and different brands make a lot of difference. Op's pic reminds me of good times but not so much. a gin and tonic has quinnine, helps with malaria, but can also up your inner ear, badly. if you ever get the chance you should go. and not goa. the people are wondermous. but different. king fisher ale is good you seldom see that around here.

>>4690686
...what.

If you don't like gin, get some juniper breeze soap from whatever that soap company is

You'll want to drink it and you'll also wash your hands more.

>>4690704

It's just /ck/'s resident Old Rambling Dude. Don't be alarmed.

>>4690839
remember that guy who posted like 200-500 word responses with no grammar about almost anything? I think this was around 09-10. He had some long winded explanation about everything from buffalo meat to tomatoes. I saved a bunch of his rants but they were always hilarious. I think one started "from brahma to bromine"

>>4690316
lrn2drink
>>4690316
this. also, a gin-gin mule is damn fine. gingerbeer+gin+1/2 lime muddled.

>>4690273
I love gin, so on the occasion that I do have a gin and tonic, I typically fill my rocks glass (google it if you're unfamiliar) with ice and pour gin until there's just enough room for a quick splash of tonic, say 5/6 gin, 1/6 tonic.
Serve with a generous lime peel, squeezed and dropped into the drink.

>>4690850
Post them

>>4690552
All very solid, however I would recommend going full ginhead and getting a bottle of New Amsterdam and Citadelle to finish the spectrum of citrusy, to junipery, to piney styles you got going.

And as a general sound bit of advice for everybody; get a bottle of Noilly Prat Original recipe (Not the extra dry, that's substandard swill)
For realsies, its one of the few white vermouths on the market that is close to pre-prohibition style and it tastes friggin good either as an apertif/digestif or a mixer. under 20 bucks to boot.

>>4690912
where do you even get that. all I can find is shitty new recipe.

>>4690921
Mmm, I have a relatively good specialty liquor store in Texas called Spec's. If your state allows it, I believe vermouth is classified as a wine and can be shipped as such.

Otherwise, ask if your most upscale liquor store would be willing to ship in a case or a bottle.
I got lucky on a bottle of Carpano Antica that way (also, an "exceptionally" good sweet vermouth if anyone is interested) that my city almost never gets

>>4690305
>ask me how I know you're 19 years old.
I'm 40.

Delicious.

>>4690122
That reminds me of my friend's kid, we fed her lemons and she didn't know that we were tricking her so after eating one slice she said, "Mama! More!"

>>4690105
bombay sapphire is a a london dry if anything.

hendricks is western dry. and i do like it though there are different western drys i appreciate more: G´Vine from france, monkey 47 from germany, the schwarzwald, black gin from there, saffron gin from idk where, pink 47.... the list goes on.

as to sapphire again, i prefer bombay original. stronger and more straight. and even cheaper than the sapphire stuff.

gordons gin... can´t stand the stuff- gives me headaches after 2 glasses.

>>4690552
i like beef, tanqu, and bombay original. haven´t had seagrams yet.

already spoke my thoughts about sapphire.

only two gins i have at home atm are moneky and black gin. i should get some botanist or tanquerry some time again. or bombay orgiginal of course.

>>4690686
this shit is high literature.

>>4692408
don´t think i never had american gin. how does it taste like?

I can't take anyone seriously if they can't enjoy a gin and tonic

>>4692463
There is truly nothing more refreshing than a nice gin and tonic over ice with a big slice of lime.

However, I do prefer my martini's to be made with vodka, and very dry. So basically just vodka.

>>4690931
I have a lot of excellent liquor stores, but the old formula (which I understand is actually the new formula and the new new formula is really the old old formula) disappeared about 4 years ago iirc.

on the other hand I don't keep a liquor collection anymore, I was drinking too much so it's probably for the best that I not bother.

>>4690100
Any opinions on Finsbury? I live in Germany and the stores usually have Bombay, Gordon's, Finsbury on the medium price range and some other shit I've only tried once.

>Drink gin
Gross.
>Drink gin and tonic
Holy shit what sorcery is this

>>4692467
that may be good, but calling it a martini is like calling stewed tomatoes "tomato confit"

just because a word sounds cool doesn't give you license to wantonly misuse it.

Gin and lemon juice, add orange juice if feeling ritzy

best drink ever

>>4692614
Likewise.

I "don't drink gin" at all. But fucking love Gin and Tonics. It's one of my least purchased alcohols but G&Ts manage to be my favorite cocktail

>>4692674
>your martini isn't a martini because I said so!

If James Bond calls it a martini, then its a goddamn martini.

>>4692737

Except those were actually Vespers, and called that in the novels. Martini was just the venacular for the glass, so the movies picked that up. But in the real word, Lillet isn't vermouth.

Oh, what's that? You DON'T make your "James Bond Martini" with Lillet? So you don't know what the fuck you're talking about? Great.

Once upon a time, a friend of mine worked in a supermarket bakery. One day, he brought home some shitty birthday cakes that were going to be thrown out. We decided to have a party. He invited one of his friends and told him to bring vodka. He arrives with some shitty gin. Asshole. Anyways, boring story short, we had birthday cake and gin and the rest of the next day was spent suffering.

>>4692781
except bond only ordered a vesper once, in casino royale
throughout the books he ordered 19 vodka martinis and 16 gin martinis

>>4692781
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>>4692805

Oh, the samefaggery!

PROTIP - when attempting to sockpuppet, don't use the same copypasta everytime, and don't respond immediately after your first post.

>>4692833
whatever helps you sleep at night fam

>>4690850
pls post, this sounds amazing

>>4692674
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>>4692833
shit like this is why I wouldn't mind fixed IDs for every thread like.. some otherwise terrible board has. either /q/, b, or v

>>4692847
if you can't differentiate anonymous posters by their writing then you shouldn't be on an anonymous discussion board in the first place.

hai guise

>>4692842
don't have the hard drive they were saved to.

>>4692840

Yeah, I remember my first MSPaint

Favorite Gin Drinks;

>Polo Cocktail
1 part gin, 1 part lemon, 2 parts orange juice
>Salty Dog
1 part gin, 2 parts fresh grapefruit juice, 1/2 teaspoon salt
>Silver Stallion
Two scoops vanilla ice-cream in a tall glass, poor gin over, like a root beer float

>>4692855
maybe next time you'll actually know what you're talking about before you try and tell someone off about bond trivia bru
in the meantime go rub some cream on that butthurt

>>4692860

Damn, that's what I call edgy!

gin an 7. my fav. drink for summer.