I SEE WHAT YU DID THAR HOHOHO

Just recovering from a night of g&t's, so I'm getting a kick. And a sharp pounding in my head.

It's cold gin time again!!!

hubiestubert: To me, there are only two gins:





/Bombay Sapphire and Tanqueray are also perfectly acceptable
//actually, to be perfectly honest I find that my local supermarket's own brand of London Dry Gin is perfectly acceptable, I'm really not a gin snob
///one of my favourite literary characters is Lucas Corso who drinks neat Bols

Towel with that?

My Fav: straight with either sprite or grapefruit soda as a chaser.

"It's unpleasantly like being drunk..."

hubiestubert: To me, there are only two gins:

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BTW - if you go to the Plymouth Gin distillery you can make your own gin from a range of botanicals:

Master Distiller's Private Tour:

This tour is our most comprehensive tour and lasts around two to two and half hours. The Master Disitllers Tour offers everything the Connoisseur's Tour does plus an opportunity to discover the secrets of gin distilling by creating and distilling your very own gin recipe. Everyone is given a 200 ml bottle of 'their' handmade gin to take away as a unique memento of their visit.

Gin sucks!

hubiestubert: Plymouth, to me, is the perfect gin, but Boodles is great for casual entertaining and BBQs. Gin, a splash of bitters and a bit of lime, and you're set. No need for mixers, no need for any other folderol. That, or just on the rocks or bone dry. Never took to the adulterating of good gin with vermouth. And while I accept that some folks like their vodka Martinis, I cannot share that particular passion. Gin has always been good to me, so I lurve her the way she was meant to be loved: whole, entire, and only occasionally splashed with a bit of color and zest. No olives, no murk, just gin and a glass and I'm happy.

You can have too much of it though. I remember getting really super-depressed one night at university for no other reason than I was hammered on gin.

I also knew some guys who did an experiment.

One weekend they drank a half litre of tequila - they were pretty hammered but happy and full of energy.
Next weekend they drank a half litre of vodka - they were pretty hammered, full of energy but angry
Next weekend they drank a half litre of gin - they were pretty hammered and burst into tears

Anecdotal but it rings true to me.

Also, I remember a mate of mine bought a round of shots on a skiing holiday and handed them round. We all clinked glasses and downed them in one, only to find that he'd bought a round of neat double gins.... That was OK for a gin fiend like me, but half my friends looked like they were going to throw up.

/everyone had been buying tequilas until that point

Why not just drink your mom's girlfriend's brother's cheap perfume?

Pert: hubiestubert: Plymouth, to me, is the perfect gin, but Boodles is great for casual entertaining and BBQs. Gin, a splash of bitters and a bit of lime, and you're set. No need for mixers, no need for any other folderol. That, or just on the rocks or bone dry. Never took to the adulterating of good gin with vermouth. And while I accept that some folks like their vodka Martinis, I cannot share that particular passion. Gin has always been good to me, so I lurve her the way she was meant to be loved: whole, entire, and only occasionally splashed with a bit of color and zest. No olives, no murk, just gin and a glass and I'm happy.

You can have too much of it though. I remember getting really super-depressed one night at university for no other reason than I was hammered on gin.

I also knew some guys who did an experiment.

One weekend they drank a half litre of tequila - they were pretty hammered but happy and full of energy.
Next weekend they drank a half litre of vodka - they were pretty hammered, full of energy but angry
Next weekend they drank a half litre of gin - they were pretty hammered and burst into tears

Anecdotal but it rings true to me.

Also, I remember a mate of mine bought a round of shots on a skiing holiday and handed them round. We all clinked glasses and downed them in one, only to find that he'd bought a round of neat double gins.... That was OK for a gin fiend like me, but half my friends looked like they were going to throw up.

/everyone had been buying tequilas until that point

I have to admit that when I used to drink several double gins on the rocks with two olives, I was a depressed, sometimes suicidal lunatic the next morning.

Between the depression and the GERD it caused, I had to quit drinking gin. I've had a recent relationship with bourbon start up but nothing to the levels or frequency of my gin days. So far I've not felt that way.

Anecdotal again but still...

Gin and tonic. The drink of civilization!

(The colonial civilization!)

My gin has a hat. Does your gin have a hat?

I know its been mentioned, but there's only two brands of gin



... and whatever is going into the house wells that night

I like Hendricks's.

Jeremy looks well appointed to the Queen's Jubilee if you know what I mean and I think you do.
*wink.

Gin is my favorite hard liquor, and I'm still enamored with:

1) Tanqueray for G&T's
2) Beefeater for Martinis (Martinis are GIN and vermouth, if you want vodka it's a Vodka Martini, not a Martini by the way; the only true "Martini" automatically means "Gin").
3) Hendrick's for summer Martinis.

Just pour me some of that Old Janx Spirit.

I once heard this actual conversation on a campus bus in college:

"What's a gin and tonic?"
"I don't know, it sounds like a girl drink"

/gin and... tonic? do they mix?

chinanto/mnigs for everybody on me.

/and make certain they're slightly above room temperature.

headline reminded me of this exchange:
The Tick VS The Uncommon Cold

I am disappointed, I figured someone would have posted Hogarth's Gin Lane and Beer Street

"Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit
No, don't you give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit
For my head will fly,
my tongue will lie,
my eyes will fry and I may die
Won't you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit"

/not panicking

Pert: "It's unpleasantly like being drunk..."

What's so unpleasant about being drunk?

Vee-One: Pert: "It's unpleasantly like being drunk..."

What's so unpleasant about being drunk?

Ask a glass of water.

Rusty Shackleford:

Canada's only premiere artisan gin, made here in Victoria. If you're visiting, and don't have a martini or G&T made with this, you're really missing out.

Yep.

You visited them? Seem like nice guys.