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[Anonymous No.12641085]

What are you drinking tonight? For me, it's Gordon's.

[Anonymous No.12641724]

>>12641085
The Gordon's we get in the States is cheap swill. Maybe it's different in Mother England, but over here Tanqueray and Beefeater are both superior choices if you don't want to shell out for Hendrick's.

[Anonymous No.12642389]

bombay sapphire
I'd prefer death's door though

[Anonymous No.12642390]

>>12641724
But Tanqueray and Beefeater are accordingly more expensive, so what's your point?

[Anonymous No.12642422]

>>12641085
how much does it cost where you live, I live in UK where it's made and at the minute it's on offer in a supermarket for £17.00 for 1 litre usually it's £20 also i'm not sure if the yellow bottle in your pic is the same as the green bottle we get here ours is labeled as 'special dry london gin'. I like gin every now and then and I prefer it to vodka for drinking neat as it has some flavor but whisky is my choice.

[Anonymous No.12642786]

>>12642422

Where I live it looks like OPs but is in a plastic bottle and its like $12.99

[Anonymous No.12642837]

Why are you making a thread if you don't enjoy alcohol? Get some nice gin.
I finished a bottle of Giniversity. Might go for an aged version next.

[Anonymous No.12642880]

>>12642837
I enjoy getting drunk before bed

[Anonymous No.12643019]

>>12641085
If you read the Ian Fleming novels, 007’s favorite gin was Gordon’s. Now 007 drinks Colt 45.

[Anonymous No.12644690]

>>12641085
Just the regular 10$ whisky bottle
I hate my life

[Anonymous No.12644823]

Cuba libre
Thinking if I should wait to drink the rest with friends tomorrow or get blackout drunk alone

[Anonymous No.12644944]

I want to get drunk so bad but I haven't had anything to drink in over 2 weeks. Alcohol, beer, tequila, preoccupies my mind. Just a few more weeks until I can drink.

[Anonymous No.12644964]

>>12644944
Why wait?

[Anonymous No.12644978]

>>12644964
Promised myself I wouldn't have anything to drink until I finish something. And I know that if I do have something to drink it will escalate, I usually black out when I drink

[Anonymous No.12645018]

>>12641724
>Hendricks
ah so you don't actually like gin

[Anonymous No.12645029]

>>12642837
Gordons is nice for the price. I make a lot of cocktails so I usually have that on hand as well as a rotating nicer gin. Right now its Bombay Sapphire East.

[Anonymous No.12645411]

>>12642786

13 bucks for a litre? jesus

[Anonymous No.12646052]

>>12641085
Water

[Anonymous No.12646072]

>>12642422
A 750ml bottle is like $11 here. Dirt cheap and gets the job done without tasting like complete ass

[Anonymous No.12646814]

>>12642390
>more expensive
Well sure. There's not much that isn't (Burnett's, Fleischmann's, and Gibey's all go for under $10, but that's about it for brands with any history behind them at all). Even Seagram's is more expensive than Gordon's here. That's why I said it's cheap swill. OK, so it's not $6/bottle Fleischmann's, but that's a low bar.

IMO, if you can't afford $20-25/bottle, then you should probably quit drinking and save your money.

>>12643019
Gordon's was far better in Ian Fleming's day than it is now. It's watered down to 37% ABV in the U.K. now, and even in America it's only 40%, whereas the better brands are around 47%. Also, the Gordon's in America doesn't even come from the same distilleries: it's made domestically under license. Tanqueray, Beefeater, and Boodles are all actually imported (we get the same higher proof versions of those that are still sold in continental Europe, despite the British market having gone to 40% or lower).

>>12645018
I've never actually tried Hendricks. I only mention it because I've heard good things from some reviewers. I usually stick to Tanqueray, myself.

>>12645411
In my part of the U.S., it's $11.99 for a "fifth" (750mL or approximately 1/5 of a gallon—the standard size for a liquor bottle here), or $19.99 for a "sixty" (1.75mL, or approximately 60 U.S. fluid ounces). My state's liquor stores don't offer Gordon's in liter bottles.

By comparison, a fifth of some of the imported brands:
-Beefeater: $22.99 (but a liter is listed at $21.99)
-Bombay Original Dry: $21.99
-Bombay Sapphire: $24.99 (but on sale for $19.99)
-Boodles: $21.99
-Tanqueray: $23.99 (but on sale for $18.99)
-Plymouth (not a London Dry Gin, I know, but worth mentioning): $34.99

[Anonymous No.12646844]

2 for $4 7-11 special

[Anonymous No.12646846]

>>12646844
My nigga. Still lean towards Hurricane though.

[Anonymous No.12646858]

>>12646846
Hurricane for some reason gives me the most fucked headaches in the morning, i still fucks with it though