Food, Drink & Dining Out The Gin Thread

[Bunk Moreland]

I have no problem with Gin, I just don't understand the popularity of Cider. It has a very boring taste..

But anyway, I do have gin in my cupboard, don't mind a gin and juice every now and then, but haven't really tried out any more traditional ways to drink it.

Cider is popular because its sweet.

All types of lolly water have a certain popularity.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Once you've had black you'll never go back.

 

[Messenger]

Psarakos in thornbury have good well priced alcohol. Other than that, dan murphys?

Psarakos are also in Bundoora. They have no idea how to price wine.

 

[nicky]

What does that mean?

 

[Messenger]

What does that mean?

They are ridiculously cheap.

 

[nicky]

Oh yeah aren't they just! Best place to buy alcohol in melbs

 

[Plugger35]

Spin spin whisky and gin I suffer for my art bartender, I got wild mushrooms growing in my yard.

 

[nicky]

Spin spin whisky and gin I suffer for my art bartender, I got wild mushrooms growing in my yard.

pardon?

 

[Gough]

Spin spin whisky and gin I suffer for my art bartender, I got wild mushrooms growing in my yard.

Lloyd Cole, quality.

 

[Plugger35]

Lloyd Cole, quality.

You get the 5 pounds.



Lloyd Cole was the Scottish version of Morrisey back in the 80s but with more up beat music.

One of the best lyricists of all time.

 

[charcoalchicken]

I went to an African bar a while ago and drank Ugandan gin all night because some dude there I was randomly chilling with recommended it I got blasted and had the worst hangover I think I've ever had in my life

 

[Black Diamond]

A friend got me on to a drink called a sloe gin fizz not too long ago. Now I have nearly every time I go out.

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

I rate. Particularly a fan of a Hendricks and tonic with a slice of cucumber. Tanqueray is seriously good with lots of ice , although I find the pine coney taste a bit too sickly sometimes.

For mine, at the end of a long day when I'm hot, thirsty and pissed off at the world, there are few drinks which are as appealing for that first mouthful as good GT with a lot of ice. Often I'll wuss out and order a beer if I'm with mates, but secretly wish I'd ordered a gin and tonic.

Also, everyone should at some point try a vesper martini whilst doing their best Sean Connery impression. They're a.) quite nice and a good way to enjoy quality gin and b.) clear evidence that Ian Fleming was a dangerous alcoholic. I love that the drink bond invents is essentially 4 shots of vodka and gin (with 45-50% alcohol as was the case back in the day) softened by a dash of dessert wine. You can get yourself very very ****ed up on vespers if you knock a few back quickly.

 

[FoolCat]

After a false start, spring weather will soon be upon us...

Looks like we may have been disqualified.

 

[nobulltiger]

Terrible, terrible stuff. It's a womans drink.

 

[DivideandMultiply]

Terrible, terrible stuff. It's a womans drink.

Was the chosen drink of British armed forces, during the formation of the greatest empire the world has ever seen.

The opposite of a womans drink.

 

[DivideandMultiply]

Also, everyone should at some point try a vesper martini whilst doing their best Sean Connery impression. They're a.) quite nice and a good way to enjoy quality gin and b.) clear evidence that Ian Fleming was a dangerous alcoholic. I love that the drink bond invents is essentially 4 shots of vodka and gin (with 45-50% alcohol as was the case back in the day) softened by a dash of dessert wine. You can get yourself very very ****** up on vespers if you knock a few back quickly.

I will have to try this.

 

[nobulltiger]

Was the chosen drink of British armed forces, during the formation of the greatest empire the world has ever seen.

The opposite of a womans drink.

How times have changed.

 

[DivideandMultiply]

How times have changed.

What, that it is now encouraged that one should be proud of ones ignorance and parade it about shamelessly, for all to see?

I suspect that has always been the case.

Likewise the status of gin. I have never, ever, known it to be considered a "womans drink". Which is hardly something to be ashamed of.

Gin's roots are medicinal, till it became the much vaunted drink of the British empire. From there it charted a course to being a common drink of choice during prohibition, till then becoming decidedly more upmarket later in the 20th century. At this point it was associated not only with high end cocktails, but with one of the manliest characters to ever grace the silver screen.

Firstly gin is not inherently sweet. Secondly, much like another "manly" spirit in scotch, it straddles the line between robust flavor and complex notes or undertones. Further to this, even variants or gins with infusions generally have maintained almost a singular purity of manufacture and identity. For instance, Sipsmith represented the first new commercial gin producing copper still in London in 200 years. Likewise, whilst there are some "modern" variations to the aromatics used, many popular gins have remained fundamentally unchanged since the 19th century or earlier.

If there was such a thing as a "womans drink", which I am sceptical of, gin would probably be it's antithesis.

 

[Gough]

I have a mate who often orders pink gin and tonic just for shit and giggles.

 

[DivideandMultiply]

I have a mate who often orders pink gin and tonic just for shit and giggles.

Another Bond and Royal navy drink of choice, though due to the bitters, one more associated with summer and the Caribbean.

Never tried one myself, I am so so on the bitters.

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

I will have to try this.

They're surprisingly tricky to make well. My wanky bartender friend informs me that the secret is to get the spirits very very cold (hence all the shaken not stirred guff), then add room temperature desert wine and lemon peel. Done right they have a nice, subtle, clean favour backed by a lot of alcohol. Helps to drink them pretty quickly before they warm up, but you do need to treat them with respect.

One of my most embarassing moments involved being out for dinner in a very nice restaurant for a friends birthday, and drinking two vespers in the space of five minutes or so without really thinking about what I was doing. I went to sleep a few minutes later and snored until someone woke me.

 

[nobulltiger]

What, that it is now encouraged that one should be proud of ones ignorance and parade it about shamelessly, for all to see?

I suspect that has always been the case.

Likewise the status of gin. I have never, ever, known it to be considered a "womans drink". Which is hardly something to be ashamed of.

Gin's roots are medicinal, till it became the much vaunted drink of the British empire. From there it charted a course to being a common drink of choice during prohibition, till then becoming decidedly more upmarket later in the 20th century. At this point it was associated not only with high end cocktails, but with one of the manliest characters to ever grace the silver screen.

Firstly gin is not inherently sweet. Secondly, much like another "manly" spirit in scotch, it straddles the line between robust flavor and complex notes or undertones. Further to this, even variants or gins with infusions generally have maintained almost a singular purity of manufacture and identity. For instance, Sipsmith represented the first new commercial gin producing copper still in London in 200 years. Likewise, whilst there are some "modern" variations to the aromatics used, many popular gins have remained fundamentally unchanged since the 19th century or earlier.

If there was such a thing as a "womans drink", which I am sceptical of, gin would probably be it's antithesis.

Gin drinker on the defense.

The only people i know that drink gin are women.

 

[Caesar]

 

[BACCS]

BACCS gtfih

Gin is bloody disgusting, has nothing on cider!