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Gin - it's more than Everclear cut with distilled water!

We like gin here. Plymouth, Bombay or Tanqueray...G+T, Negronis, Martinis...

I always eat first when I have a G&T and use the drink to wash a 50 mg Zinc supplement down . Say hey got no covid 19 yet.quine in the tonic water and the zinc.

Sunday evening ritual in the hot summer is a couple gin and tonics with a fine Cuban cigar. Usually Bombay Sapphire.

Would like to try Plymouth gin instead of London, but haven’t run across it here.

Who else keeps their gin (and their vodka) in the freezer?

BTW, if you don't drink, or you're the driver tonight, or just for a refreshing summer drink without booze, try a South Hampton. Two or three dashes bitters, and tonic water over ice. Zero cloying sweetness, crisp and delicious.

Love a good G&T in summer.

Deb loves them all the time.



I prefer mine with cucumber.

Sorry MathMan !

Actually, there are a good number of boutique distilleries now making great gin !!

This one is really nice, served over ice;



*The unique colour of this spirit comes from the mix of Arctic sourced botanicals that include cloudberry, labrador tea, rose hip and more. Medium lemon yellow in colour; aromas of juniper, herbal tea, spice and tart fruit; dry and medium-bodied followed by a warm and spicy finish.

Yes, craft or boutique distillers can do some interesting things with gin (vodka + botanicals) and vodka (which can and should be much more than everclear and water). What the craft distillers like most is they can get a quick cash flow going with spirits that don't need long aging.

New craft/boutique whiskey producers have a choice to make: either source out their whiskey (mostly from MGP in Indiana) while waiting for the whiskey they've distilled to age, or, put their whiskey in smaller (but still expensive) casks rush young whiskey out the door. Very few new whiskey distillers have the capital to keep afloat while waiting for their spirits to age the 4-8 years it typically takes to produce a decent whiskey.

We go through quite a bit of gin around here...very rare that we don't have a before dinner cocktail. My wife wants nothing but either gin and tonic or a Negroni. I usually have a manhattan, old fashioned, martini, gin and tonic or some kind of whisky on the rocks. Our go to gin is Tanqueray or Bombay Safire. I keep Plymouth for martinis. When we were stocking up recently, I saw something I'd never seen before, Plymouth Gin Navy Strength. IIRC, it was about 99 proof. When we lived up on the border, we'd get Tanqueray "Export Strength" 95 proof, again, IIRC. I think some gins are to be avoided, the well brands at most bars and the cheaper ones...always taste, to me, like paint thinner or something...a real slimy chemical sort of mouth that just cries, "Wallbanger in the morning."

I too like Gin. I am the winemaker for 3 brands all owned by the same family here in SW Michignan (Tabor Hill, Round Barn, and Free Run). Round Barn also makes beer and various spirits but I just make the wine. The Gin at Round Barn is quite good I think.

I like Gin and Tonic and I usually add several drops of Nellie and Joe's Famous Key West Lime juice. I have had and liked Tanqueray and Hendricks but I am cheap and usually just buy whatever is cheap at the grocery store.

If you like Gin and live in SW Michigan come give the Round Barn product a try and let me know what you think.

I think our Vodka is also really tasty.

https://roundbarn.com/libations/spirits/

Good tonic is important too, for a good gin and tonic. We buy ours mostly online now so we can get tonic made without high fructose corn syrup. My method: squeeze a quarter of a lime over ice, run it around the rim and drop it in the glass. Add gin, 1 1/2 or 2 ounces, fill with tonic.

I saw, early on in this thread, someone posting about gin and Mountain Dew...you know, I'm a big "to each his own" sort of guy, but gin and Mountain Dew??? Very few things leave me speechless, but I don't know how to respond to that.

Agree on the good mixers !

To me the tonic is as important as the gin.
Fever tree does it right with their tonic.

Also there is something special about tonic from a “gun” at a bar that can’t be replicated from a can/bottle.

Fever tree is the best

I ginned a lot of cotton back in the day...

If you like high fructose corn syrup it is. If you want to ramp up your game:

https://www.amazon.com/Drinks-Tonic...th+quinine&qid=1585181823&sr=8-4

Busch ice baby.

Yeah, well my first time with gin and Dew was after Katrina, had a bottle of gin and some Dew and still like it.
Eventually I’ll try some of the drinks listed here, but for now I’ll do the Dew!
Ronnie

When I become King of America, it will be illegal to mix gin with Mountain Dew. Six months on the chain gang.

Fever Tree uses cane sugar. Hard to imagine a tonic that would leave FT in the dust but I am curious