| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Fee |
Your Preferred GinHappytechie came home with a bottle of my favourite this afternoon (who needs cake, when you've got gin?), which I haven't had for a while.I'm on the second glass, and it's soooo tasty  Not sure the pie I was going to make is going to be as good as it should be, perhaps it'll be better!
Got me thinking, because I know my favourite isn't everybody's, what's your preferred gin? |
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Juniper Green.
Lovely stuff. n |
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| Fee |
Oh, yes, that is nice too, I couldn't remember what it was called. | ||||||
| Chez |
Any, at this stage. But I may save up for some Bombay Sapphire for labour 
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| wellington womble |
I like Bombay sapphire best (alhtough I've never got over the disapointment when the actual gin wasn't blue) and Tanqueray for the occasional change. With Nordic Mist tonic, for preference.
Having said that, Gordons and Schweppes will do in pinch! |
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There is a suburb of Edinburgh (posh-ish) called Juniper Green. 
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| marigold |
Plymouth gin for me. Though calling itself the world's smoothest gin isn't particularly appealing IMO  .
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| otatop |
I have it on the very best authority that Plymouth is the preferred gin at Westminster. I'm not entirely sure if they still support the RNLI (my favourite charity). Anyway, Plymouth gets my vote. | ||||||
| Fee |
Did I mean Plymouth and not Portsmouth? Too much Bombay, that's the trouble 
Absolutely! |
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| otatop |
Oh Help - I voted for Portsmouth (never heard of it) when I meant Plymouth. Sorry sorry sorry. | ||||||
| Fee |
I think I made it up
Cana fairy come and change the Portsmouth option to Plymouth, please?
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| otatop |
Dear Fee
From one gin drinker to another - what's in a name? (Saturday evening hic). |
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| Fee |
Evsgactly!
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| BahamaMama |
Where is the option for Sloe?
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| wellington womble |
Your wish is my command! | ||||||
| Fee |
Are you calling me slow?
See, I consider Sloe (and damson, yumm) a different species, you put stuff into the initial gin there, don't you, therefore a different beastie entirely. I think I better go and make pie. |
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| wellington womble |
Well, it's awfully slow to make, although not to disappear! I think of sloe gin as leuiquiererer, rather than with tonic, though. Like Baileys. | ||||||
| otatop |
I'm about to weave my way to the kitchen to cook dinner - but I did just check the label of my favourite gin - and there was no mention of the RNLI. I will investigate further - but it's still my favourite. | ||||||
| Brownbear |
If anyone is interested, I can pass on a very good recipe for Martinis that it took me some years to get how I liked
Five parts Gin. One part Vermouth. One teaspoon of the brine from a tin of anchovy-stuffed olives. Three thin slices of lemon peel. Give it a thorough stir with plenty of ice, and strain into glasses. Add a Queen olive if you care for them. Drink forst, then savour the soused olive. |
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| MrsWW |
Hendricks gin for me - served with ice, slice of cucumber and slimline tonic. Summery bliss in a glass
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| Cathryn |
I think I need to do a side by side comparison... 
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| wellington womble |
Oooh. A gin vertical tasting (or horzontal tasting, I suspect!) What a good idea. I'll make a start. Beats avoiding housework. | ||||||
| jema |
Another for Bombay when drinking it plain.
Certainly don't go for very cheap Gin which I find a little nasty. For Sloe Gin making I generally go for one above a value brand. |
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| Chez |
I think there's a place for Very Cheap Gin. Generally after you've finished the More Expensive Gin and all the shops are shut. | ||||||
| jema |
I have to admit I have not done the cheap Gin range, it may well have been ASDAs value one that decided me against them, possibly Tescos is better? | ||||||
| Fee |
Isn't it just, can we all bring our favourite to the Food Event nextyear, and do just that?
Pie in the oven! I'll have you know it included jointing a chickjen firsttoo. Aside: You know when sometimes you realise how far you've come in some ways? When I was 17 I still couldn't bare to even touch raw meat, even bacon wasn't easy! Now I'm cracking chicken bones without thought, and no longer need to check the jointing a chicken article on here before doing it! My niece was very impressed (and a bit repulsed) atme jointing a duck in the week, which made me think about it. Anyway, MORE GIN! |
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| Chez |
I don't know. By the time I normally get on to it my short-term memory is no longer functioning. It's a theory, though .
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| jema |
It is all down to taste, My taste in Whisky for example does not run above relatively cheap brands, on the other hand with rum it has to be something expensive like Woods. | ||||||
| Treacodactyl |
I've yet to find one that has a really decently strong flavour without the need for having a really strong G&T. Bombay Sapphire and Tanqueray are the best at the moment although I bet there's a better one out there somewhere, anyone tried Tanqueray No. 10? | ||||||
| Nanny |
i voted on behalf of rolf who is a bombay when i can afford to buy it for him
he says tesco do a good one though he has shied away from the value range i do like gin but he collars it before i can get to it and drinks it with tonic and no ice or lemon.....i couldn't drink it like that, i like a true g and t his father drinks it straight or with water- yuk i blame a life at sea for their strange habits..... |
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| Chez |
I think it's about training ones pallet (is that the right kind of pallet?). I'm not really very knowledgeable about anything, although I know a little about whisky. I'm an Island Malts person - or a whiskey person. But when I started drinking it I could literally only just sniff it. | ||||||
| Nanny |
so am i but sniffing is not an option i drink it....... ardbeg talisker laphroaig any of the above........however as i can't afford most of those any more, i make do with teachers and am very pleased to do so |
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| KILLITnGRILLIT |
Sloe, or damson 
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| wellington womble |
Has anyone ever tried saffron gin? Gorgeous colour, lovely thought. Tastes exactly the same as normal gin. I must try making my own, with some flavour in it! | ||||||
| Fee |
OOooh, no! |
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| Marionb |
Surprisingly one person hates gin
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| otatop |
I used to have a problem with the taste of gin - all to do with a party that I went to when I was about 18. The good thing that came out the whole horrible business is that I am now a little more discerning. | ||||||
| lettucewoman |
bombay....that's it....nothing else is anywhere close!!
Cept I can't drink atm cos I am on mega doses of steroids (yes I know...but it's just for a week) for my poor nose... 
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| Maxwell Smart |
tanqueray ten | ||||||
| nora |
Juniper Green | ||||||
| Erikht |
Took me ten years to be able to sniff it again after a school trip to Berlin. We made G's & T's, 30% gin and 70% tonic. Then it sort of changed around. Then the tonic ran out. I still don't drink gin bare, though I like the occasional G & T, dry martini (I'll try yours, Brownbear) and gimlet (with Rose's, off course). Edited to say: And Bombay's. Seems to be a rather average gin, from this thread. |
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| Fee |
Ah, but this is the 'preferred' gin
I'm forced to drink Gordon's in-between Bombays
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| 12Bore |
Home made Elderberry gin 
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| bernie-woman |
This one is my favourite at the moment -
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| Rob R |
I prefer Scotch
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| Erikht |
What does the different gins cost in the UK? | ||||||
| Treacodactyl |
http://www.tesco.com/whatsinstore/search.asp?subgroup=W61DA | ||||||
| Nanny |
oh so do i, when i can afford it jura anyone? |
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| Erikht |
*Sigh* I don't understand what you people are complaining about.... |
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| Erikht |
My prices:
Beefeater, London dry (70cl) £28 Bombay sapphire (70cl) £29 Gordon's (70cl) £27 Plymouth (70cl) £28 Tanqueray (70cl) £30 Tanqueray nr 10 (70cl) £46 If nothing else, the prices are fairly stable. There is no reason to settle for a cheap gin. |
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| Nanny |
crikey is whiskey expensive like that as well? |
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| Rob R |
It's enough to drive you to drink... | ||||||
| Nanny |
perhaps- if we could afford the diesel to drive to the pub..
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| Pilsbury |
Be cheaper to get some posted out to you, when is it your Birthday?? |
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| jema |
Are we really talking pounds sterling  If so I am amazed that moonshine is not a major industry!
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| Rob R |
I have to make the decision to either drive to the pub & not drink or drink at home, it works pretty well
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| Nanny |
as i don't drive, rolf makes that decision more often than not we stay home and drink......... |
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| Pel |
I've put i hate gin, not that i hate gin, but i've only tried home made sloe and damson, both of which was good. (ok i have had it in a pub, but i didn't choose it)
But i personally would never go and buy gin to have straight (as in not used to make something else). Would rather buy whisky or apple sourz, or actually anything else. |
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| Jonnyboy |
Careful with the tonic!!!!!!
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| Chez |
I thought that was one of the reasons why the G&T was the Drink Of The Empire ... because of the quinine? | ||||||
| Jamanda |
Bombay Sapphire here too, and like WW I was so disappointed to find it wasn't really blue
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| Erikht |
Jep. |
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| Erikht |
Thank you for the thought, but I will have to pay tax on that anyway, so it will actually end up more expensive that way if we put the two outlays together. |
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| Erikht |
Well, it is. |