Reply With QuoteCraft gin member?Originally Posted by Mj2k
Really like the Napue, current favourite is the AK gin, Gin Mare and my own infused damson gin but always have a selection of 10+ bottles in the cupboard!
Ditto my current favourite £18 delivered on Amazon
Craft gin member?
Really like the Napue, current favourite is the AK gin, Gin Mare and my own infused damson gin but always have a selection of 10+ bottles in the cupboard!
Is that 6 Dogs ? Had this is South Africa the other week and glad to say I brought a bottle back with me is great gin although looks like meths before you pour it out !
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Nope, I've just had a look and its called sharish "blue magic". Bit of a novelty, I'll report back regarding the taste. ;)
Never joined, worth doing?
I got introduced through a Finnish friend of mine & never looked back.
After gaining 5kg on holiday, I’m taking a week off until Xmas & then a dry January.
Tipple for me currently is therefore Seedlip. Great ‘alcohol free botanical’, just hurts that it’s £27 a bottle given there is no duty involved!
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Don't know if it's already been suggested but the Aldi gin is pretty decent for the money. Came up good in blind taste tests earlier this year against much more expensive gin.
We've just stopped it after 18 months or every other month delivery. It's very good and works out £40 per package with a bottle of gin and then a selection of extras. Quite hit andmiss with the gins, some excellent some average and only had 1 unpleasant bottle in that time which is probably more to do with us really not liking ginger. You try a lot of things that aren't easily accessible and the extras are usual interesting as well.
Cheers Olly, will give it a go
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Gin Mare all the way. A fantastic Mediterranean flavoured gin
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Gin leads to “Gincidents”.
Trust me on this.
So clever my foot fell off.
That's a very ginsightful comment. Probably.
Got a bottle last year from Aldi for £22.
Just been on Eurostar and business lounge had this at the self service bar
https://www.craftginclub.co.uk/ginne...thday-with-gin
Very nice!
My recommendations go with
Warner Edwards Rhubarb Gin
Blackwoods 60
Monkey 47
I'm also working my way through a bottle of Mayfield Gin and a bottle of Gin Mare but I'm undecided if they are worth the price premium.
Hendricks and palmers 44 both go down well.
Slingsby's Rhubarb.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
I may have mentioned this before, but it's remarkably simple to make your own rhubarb gin. You can control the amount of sugar / sweetness and it really does taste *better* than most commercially available flavoured gins.
My favourite gin is Liverpool Gin, but it has got quite pricey since the company was sold.
I also enjoy Plymouth, Tanqueray 10 and from left field, Nordes from Spain which is rather floral due to the use of Albariño grape husks in the making.
Cheers,
Nordes is excellent.
Try it with lemon tonic... lovely!
Gunpowder is good but which tonic?
Any good* tonic (not flavored). Very few sensible gins need anything else, to be honest. IIRC, they suggest a pink grapefruit garnish, but there can't be many of us who have one of those lying around, waiting for a g'n't. Probably.
*Good = not flat. And not diet.
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Agree with this. Does my box in when I seem to get a fruit salad in a glass now instead of my g-n-t. If gin needs a load of stuff wedged into the glass to "enhance" it then the basic recipe can't be that good in my mind.
Silentpool / botanist / Orphir to name a few with one of those little tins of fevertree tonic, 3 cubes if ice, job done.
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Brands need to differentiate - and the Signature Serve is one way of doing this. I do like, for example, to add apple, lemon, lime, orange, rosemary, etc to gin when they are available. It does make for a more interesting drink, and it's sometimes good to mix things up a bit. Garnishes do make a difference: we drink as much with our eyes and nose as we do with our taste buds. The nose is especially important, and to my list of things that are prerequisites, I'd add a clean glass and fresh ice.
Speaking more broadly, the gin category is so wide now, that many gins are borderline vodkas; the predominant flavor should be juniper (although you could argue that Bombay steered us away from that some time ago).
We have just emptied a bottle of Slingsby Rhubarb gin.
I'm not usually a gin lover but this disappeared very quickly!
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Our lass has a bottle of Whitney Neill and at 43% has a decent kick. ( i prefer dark rum and whiskey).
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Not usually a fan of flavoured spirits but I really like the blood orange infused Jensens gin from Bermondsey
Was given it as a gift and bought another bottle.
You have to go to the distillery to purchase though.
I have been drinking Plymouth Gin with Fevertree tonic this Christmas - I have found I get tipsy very fast on it (2 doubles) far earlier than drinking anything else. But a strange tipsy, just wondering if I am allergic to something in a gin and tonic.
Jawbox
Proper "man's gin"
http://jawboxgin.com
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Tried one called Skin Gin the other night...it's a German gin with very little juniper. What you do get is a big hit of mint. Personally I thought it was a bit weird and not a gin I would voluntarily go back to.
A bit of thread resurrection..... I'm guessing that 'gin' being too short a word for the search function to cope doesn't help!
Anyhow, I tried a gin from The Wrecking Coast Distillery. It's a clotted cream gin. First impressions were "weird" as creamy isn't a taste that I associate with gin. By the end of the glass I had sort of got used to it but wouldn't drink it again out of preference.
What I have been drinking a bit of lately is Brecon Gin..very nice with the old standard slice of lemon but I keep meaning to try it as recommended by the distillers which is with cucumber and mint.
There are loads of other gins I fancy trying but I'm not prepared to buy loads of bottles on spec. What I have done though (and can recommend) is buy a load of one shot miniatures from drinksbythedram.com
I have all sorts now to try such that I hadn't previously come across,including:
Jinzu (Japanese style recommended to me by a friend)
Garden Tiger
Lone Wolf (distilled by Brewdog)
McQueen Smoked Chilli Gin (which I fully expect to be horrible but I liked the name)
Junipero (distilled in San Francisco and one I have wanted to try for ages but not at approx £40 a bottle)
Dorothy Parker American Gin ( as above but distilled in New York)
plus several more!
The drinks cupboard is becoming somewhat gin heavy
Six Dogs Blue Gin is exceptional although not cheap. I really like Martin Millers as well.
Any of these plus silent pool and botanist. Please ignore the security tag thing on the Ophir.
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Can highly recommend the Ginventory app to keep track of your collection (ahem 40 bottles is not a problem) and signature serves.
We’ve been to a couple gin festivals and tried well over 40 or 50 gins in the last couple of years.
I have settled on a favourite which is Whitley Neil Quince gin poured over a handful of ice cubes,with a quarter of a satsuma or tangerine orange squeezed and then dropped into the drink, then add a small can of Fever Tree yellow tonic water. Nice.
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