🍸 The Gin thread

Has it been that bad? Talk to us Bucks, we are here to help

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He’s got fuck all else to do :lou_wink_2:

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I’m pretty partial to a g and t but must confess that as long as it’s Fever Tree tonic and a fucking huge balloon glass I’m not particularly fussy.

As mentioned yesterday, this is one that has stood out as a bit yummy though:

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Surprized Bletch is not here in is smoking jacket sipping on a pink gin

Local to me… its certainly something Gay Abandon woudl ahve approved of

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I like gin

it doesn’t like me

Emirates airline has Gin & Tonic as my prefererred drink :lou_lol:

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I drink gin way more than rum now. So happy to see what’s suggested here too.

@bucks any other mixer suggestions as my partner doesn’t like tonic water either?

I brought back from Norfolk a very smooth gin. It was a tad pricey but as a ‘souvenir’ / treat I felt it was worth it.

Loved the bottle and label. Label comes off smoothly too so I now have a bottle to maybe make some sloe gin at some point.

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I have seen ginger beer, or soda water and lime juice suggested.

I tried ginger ale first though and (a) I liked it straightaway; (b) asking for G + GA in pubs seems to be more common than I realised; and Š Fever Tree have a ginger ale :cool:

You’ll thank me later:

Take 1 gin balloon glass.

Add 4 large ice cubes.

Add:

25ml london dry gin.

25ml greenall’s wild berry gin.

50ml apple schnapps (I am using TeichennĂŠ Manzana Apple).

juice of 1 lime.

stir.

good splash of fever tree mediterranean tonic.

scrunch up a sprig of mint and add along with a kaffir lime leaf and an apple segment.

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I can highly recommend:

budget(ish) option: Whitley Neill Rhubarb and Ginger Gin with ginger ale.

premium option: Bath Gin Hopped Rhubarb Edition with ginger ale. yum.

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If martinis are your thing then Gilpins in the way forward

{James Bond is a rock lord if he can save the world after three of these}

Just trying Lone Wolf… ice, orange segment and fever tree tonic… could be calling you all cunts very soon (mind you I do that sober or pissed) :lou_wink_2:

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Apparently, Saturday is world gin day, and to celebrate that fact I am going to “Brisbane’s biggest gin party”, with 3 hours of various gin tastings.

Sunday I am jumping on a plane back to the UK.

I don’t think I thought this through too well…

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And Mrs G and I celebrate our wedding anniversary :lou_smiley:.

BBQ planned. Gin arrived today :lou_lol:

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Huge congratulations! x 2 :lou_lol:

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World gin day, eh??

Right then, I shall be at a pool party in Singerpore - quick detour to duty free on the way through Heathrow

The Ginchester Festival is having a fete in the Great Hall in Winchester this Saturday pm if anyone is interested.

(not a member or in any way affiliated, just passing on the info). Might be pissed up there though.

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I shall be spending Saturday taking Teenage Mutant to an open day at Sussex Uni (me and Mrs C_S met in Brighton and were indifferent students tbf) then off to pick up Young Adult after her 1st year at Uni in Exeter on Sunday- gonna be knackered. Think I’ll try a couple of the recommended drinkies on here …think I’ll need it…!

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I bought a bottle of Twisted Nose gin, distilled in Old Alresford by the Winchester Distillery, at a farmer’s market in Emsworth the other day. Its botanicals include watercress and it’s wonderful served with Fever Tree’s elderflower tonic. Gorgeous and refreshing, with a grapefruit flavour to it - best enhanced by adding a slice of pink grapefruit. They do distillery tours too!

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_I have a bottle of tanquray that nobody wants to open .