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| gin entry by tick 9/18/2005 4:05 AM
| So here I am, sitting around drinking gin and tonics, when I realize that very few of my friends know anything about gin, or have ever had a gin and tonic. So what will hopefully follow is a series of informative reviews of my favorite (and not so favorite) gins. Gin & Tonic: - put handfull of ice in a tall glass - fill glass with 1/3 gin, 2/3 tonic water - squeeze in a lime slice, and drop it in the glass - consume rapidly
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Location: Abingdon, VA Gender: Male Total Likes: 1 like
| | | | | Re: gin < Reply # 1 on 9/18/2005 4:42 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Tanqueray Tanqueray isn't bad. It's not that great either. But, it's affordable (well, more so than a lot of gins). It has a bit of a piney taste, but it's not nearly as bad as the cheaper gins. And after half a glass, you won't notice the taste anyways. This is the gin I buy when I'm on a budget. It'll never impress the ladies like Sapphire, but it won't scare them away like Bowmans will, hehe. 94.6 proof $21.90 / .750 L I'd give it 3 out of five stars, or limes, or olives, or whatever.
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Location: Abingdon, VA Gender: Male Total Likes: 1 like
| | | | | Re: gin < Reply # 3 on 9/18/2005 5:18 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Bombay Sapphire With every type of liquor, there's one brand that makes an incredible mixed drink - one where you can't taste any harshness or unpleasantness from the liquor. With rum, it's Mount Gay (stop laughing). With gin, it's Bombay Sapphire. I can't count the number of times some random girl has looked in my liquor cabinet and said "Oh wow, you have Sapphire? That's stuff's really good!" You just don't get compliments like that about Tanqueray or Beefeater. If you're a gin drinker, buy Bombay Sapphire. If you're not a gin drinker, but are curious... buy Bombay Sapphire. It makes excellent G&T's, martinis, gin & juices, whatever. 94 proof $23.95 / .750 L Bombay Sapphire gets 5 out of 5 limes. edit: Oh yeah, I used to buy this shit by the handle. It's $42 for a 1.75 L. That'll kill your food budget really fast!
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Location: Abingdon, VA Gender: Male Total Likes: 1 like
| | | | | Re: gin < Reply # 5 on 9/19/2005 3:58 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Hendrick's Hendrick's is a Scottish gin, but don't hold that against it. It's expensive, and a relative low proof, so I held off on buying a bottle for a long time. Oh yeah, and it apparently has an "unexpected infusion of cucumber and rose petals" resulting "in a most iconoclastic gin". What the fuck? I don't know about the cucumber and roses, but this gin is good. Very good. I mean, it has a lot of flavor (but not a piney flavor), which I'm usually not too big a fan of in a gin (if that makes sense). The flavor is very good though, and makes for a quite tasty gin and tonic. Also, it has a cool bottle. 88 proof $32.95/.750 L (Holy shit! It used to not be this expensive!) Hendrick's gets 5 out of 5 limes.
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Location: Abingdon, VA Gender: Male Total Likes: 1 like
| | | | | Re: gin < Reply # 11 on 9/24/2005 7:00 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Well, I looked through my collection of old gin bottles, and the only gins I've bought but failed to mention here are Citadelle and Daresburys. It been forever since I drank either of them, so I can't remember enough to even give half-ass reviews, but Citadelle = good, Daresburys = bad. And here are my overall rankings: 1) Bombay Sapphire (5 limes) 2) Hendricks (5 limes) 3) Citadelle (4 limes) 4) Bombay Dry (4 limes) 5) Tanqueray (3 limes) 6) Tanqueray Ten (2 limes) 7) Daresburys (2 limes) 8) Tanqueray Malacca (2 lemons) 9) Beefeater (1 lime) Now go put this knowledge to good use! And visit this link.
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Location: Abingdon, VA Gender: Male Total Likes: 1 like
| | | | | Re: gin < Reply # 12 on 2/3/2006 3:46 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Plymouth Gin I'm pretty wasted, so bear with me here. I bought Plymouth Gin for the first time today. It's named for the British Plymouth, not the Yankee Plymouth. Apparently, the Pilgrims left from Plymouth, England, and partied at this abandoned monestary before setting sail to the New World. And by 'abandoned monestary', I mean gin distillary. On a related note, the Jamestown colony was founded 13 years before the Pilgrims yankeed their way into the history books, so everyone in New England can kiss my ass. Oh yeah, the gin. Suprisingly, Plymouth Gin doesn't suck. It's available in regluar strength (82.4 proof) and Navy proof (114 proof, fuck yeah). Tragically, the Navy proof isn't available in Virginia at this time. Maybe it's available in New England? I don't know. Like I said, the gin doesn't suck. It's actually a lot like Bombay Dry, but with more of an 'earthy' kind of aftertaste (if that makes sense). It's not bad. I just wish the regular strength wasn't so weak. 82.4 proof $28/.750 L or so Plymouth gets 4 out of 5 limes.
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