Best Gin?

PostRe: Best Gin? by **Cyburn2** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 6:22 pm

What are the opinions on Haymans gin and Sipsmiths gin?

Only gin I have had is Gordons, Bombay Sapphire and ALDI (someone had it at a house party :lol:

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PostRe: Best Gin? by **Errkal** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 6:30 pm

There is a small producer called BlackDown in the South Downs that are meant to be very good, theirs is a Silverbirch gin

PostRe: Best Gin? by **Dowbocop** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 9:22 pm

Had a Hendricks and Britvic tonic at the theatre last night, was bloody lovely.

Cucumber and juniper berries are all the rage these days, but I do just love a slice of lime :wub:

PostRe: Best Gin? by **Yoshimi** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 9:24 pm

Pickering's Gin from Edinburgh is very nice. I had a tour on their distillery recently.

PostRe: Best Gin? by **karl_fletcher** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 12:17 am

I love gin. A little too much, maybe.

I tend to pick up new gins when I see them, or try them at a bar (so long as they have Fever Tree). These are what I currently have on the go:

The Bombay Amber I bought from Toronto airport and later found out it was only sold there along with airports in Vegas, Singapore and Sydney. It's a good winter gin, as is Whitley Neill.

My favourite is still Tanqueray Ten. I rarely buy it as a bottle will only last me about a week.

Website · PostRe: Best Gin? by **Tragic Magic** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 1:52 am

I like cider.

7256930752 · PostRe: RE: Re: Best Gin? by **7256930752** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 10:19 am

karl_fletcher wrote:I love gin. A little too much, maybe.

I tend to pick up new gins when I see them, or try them at a bar (so long as they have Fever Tree). These are what I currently have on the go:

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The Bombay Amber I bought from Toronto airport and later found out it was only sold there along with airports in Vegas, Singapore and Sydney. It's a good winter gin, as is Whitley Neill.

My favourite is still Tanqueray Ten. I rarely buy it as a bottle will only last me about a week.

What do you mean by a winter gin? Gin and tonic is very much a summer drink for me.

PostRe: Best Gin? by **Victor Mildew** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 6:16 pm

Sloe gin is the king of winter gins

PostRe: Best Gin? by **gamerforever** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 6:25 pm

Ad7 wrote:Sloe gin is the king of winter gins

Very nice chilled, but an acquired taste. For me hendricks is the nicest, but i do need to give other ones a go like tanqueray and plymouth.

PostRe: Best Gin? by **Victor Mildew** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 6:56 pm

I've only had sloe gin that we made ourselves. still got some form about 4 years ago as we found a whole field edge of sloe bushes so ended up making about 5 litres of the stuff. Sloe gin and port at Christmas

PostRe: Best Gin? by **Banjo** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 10:35 pm

Scottish Gin has really come into popularity lately, in my work we have about three shelves of different stuff (which is a lot as we only stock a shelf or two of varying spirits aside from whisky which we have a full wall of). I mentioned Rock Rose earlier, but Daffy's gin has been a real popular seller recently, really high quality stuff.

PostRe: RE: Re: Best Gin? by **karl_fletcher** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 10:40 pm

Hime wrote:What do you mean by a winter gin? Gin and tonic is very much a summer drink for me.

Certain botanicals make a gin seem more wintery to me. Bombay Amber has nutmeg and is aged in vermouth barrels. Whitley Neill has Angelica root and sweet orange, I sometimes prefer it without tonic, just a slice of orange.

PostRe: Best Gin? by **karl_fletcher** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 10:46 pm

Banjo wrote:Scottish Gin has really come into popularity lately, in my work we have about three shelves of different stuff (which is a lot as we only stock a shelf or two of varying spirits aside from whisky which we have a full wall of). I mentioned Rock Rose earlier, but Daffy's gin has been a real popular seller recently, really high quality stuff

Scottish gin is huge all over the world. Tanqueray and Gordons are both produced in Scotland, and of the premium brands, Hendricks is definitely one of the most popular. I also really like The Botanist, which is distilled in (on?) Islay. I will definitely check out Daffy's next time I see it.

PostRe: Best Gin? by **Johnny Ryall** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 7:17 am

They make rock rose just up the road a wee bit from here. That's all I have to add.

PostRe: Best Gin? by **Herdanos** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 6:04 pm

Hexx wrote:Best Gin is when it's poured down the sink. Horrid stuff.

Grim more like, amright?

Hey Hexx. Usually we disagree on stuff, so I thought I'd hop in here and show my appreciation for this post, and my agreement with your statement.

Keep up the good work!

Yours,

Dan.

PostRe: Best Gin? by **Hesk** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 9:36 pm

Gin haters unite o/

strawberry floating rank.

I have, however, bookmarked this topic as my girlfriend loves gin and there's some decent present suggestions in here.

PostRe: Best Gin? by **still** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:02 pm

This stuff is bloody lovely:-

https://www.masterofmalt.com/gin/gin-mare-gin/

(Gin haters - get some grown up taste buds!!)

PostRe: Best Gin? by **Tomous** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:25 pm

Don't know about best but the Tesco Value gin I had at 18 must be the worst. Has put me off gin for life.

PostRe: Best Gin? by **Mini E** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:04 pm

Konyagi.

National drink of Tanzania. strawberry floating ruined me :slol:

7256930752 · PostRe: Best Gin? by **7256930752** » Thu Sep 10, 2015 7:24 am

Turns out that in Cambridge there is a place that specialises in gin and does a daily gin and tonic. I asked the barman to recommend something based on me liking Hendrick's and I believe it was called Martin Miller's (I was a bit intoxicated at this point).

Bloody lovely, whatever it was.

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