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Offline Black Wolf

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Bloody Gin
on: February 21, 2006, 12:50:08 pm
Does anyone know any decent drinks with gin in them that taste as little like Gin as possible? I'm setting up a home bar, and I'm somewhat obligated to buy Gin (Besides being the base for Martinis, its an ingredient in a particular drink I want to try), but I loathe the stuff as a general rule. So does anyone know of any gin drinks that aren't, you know, utterly terrible?
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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #1 on: February 21, 2006, 12:55:14 pm
I'm still searching for one.

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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #2 on: February 21, 2006, 01:03:34 pm
Yes. Rum. Or Vodka. Vodka and schnapps is good. Oh, with some cranberry juice, watermellon schnapps and vodka... Soo good.
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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #3 on: February 21, 2006, 01:07:32 pm
Plain old Gin Tonic, with ice and a lemon slice. Goes down like water.
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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #4 on: February 21, 2006, 01:10:46 pm
Yeah I've had the one that fishguts suggested. Though I was already slogged, barely remember it.
Gin is an angry man's drink though. Better don the blue singlet before you drink that stuff IMO. ;)

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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #5 on: February 21, 2006, 03:01:55 pm
the good ol' gin&tonic is what I use my gin for. except for when I drink it straight up.

my own home "bar" isn't that extensive. just a few liqueurs, vodka, gin, whiskey and saké. and a few beers for good measure.
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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #6 on: February 21, 2006, 03:02:53 pm
How is sake? Always tempted to get it, but I don't wanna waste money on something bad.
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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #7 on: February 21, 2006, 03:06:11 pm
Quote from: Raa on February 21, 2006, 03:02:53 pm
How is sake? Always tempted to get it, but I don't wanna waste money on something bad.


I had had a few GT's at the time I tasted it, but it tasted a bit like regular white wine, tbh. maybe a bit better than I find white wine to taste. easy to drink.
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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #8 on: February 21, 2006, 03:46:22 pm
Quote from: Col. Fishguts on February 21, 2006, 01:07:32 pm
Plain old Gin Tonic, with ice and a lemon slice. Goes down like water.


Though if you order a G 'n' T you might get some funny looks from your mates..... :nervous:

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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #9 on: February 21, 2006, 05:20:56 pm
I'm not quite following you.... I think there's some sexual reference in G'n'T which I'm not seeing ?
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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #10 on: February 21, 2006, 07:47:30 pm
Not exactly... he's saying it's a girls drink.

Of course, you can choose to ignore the generalisation that women drink it more than men do and go ahead and drink it anyway.
 

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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #11 on: February 21, 2006, 08:52:31 pm
Ech... hard liquor is wretched unless in very fruity drinks.
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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #12 on: February 22, 2006, 04:36:01 am
Quote from: Kalfireth on February 21, 2006, 07:47:30 pm
Not exactly... he's saying it's a girls drink.

Of course, you can choose to ignore the generalisation that women drink it more than men do and go ahead and drink it anyway.

I don't think that's the case over here. and it certainly wasn't true where it originated.
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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #13 on: February 22, 2006, 04:48:00 am
I guess it's a country specific thing then... AFAIK here it's a drink that's strictly drunk by men with yachts and be women.

That is, of course, a massive generalisation.
 

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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #14 on: February 22, 2006, 05:04:40 am
Quote from: Black Wolf on February 21, 2006, 12:50:08 pm
Does anyone know any decent drinks with gin in them that taste as little like Gin as possible? I'm setting up a home bar, and I'm somewhat obligated to buy Gin (Besides being the base for Martinis, its an ingredient in a particular drink I want to try),

Drink vodka martini's instead. If it's good enough for James Bond.... :p
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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #15 on: February 22, 2006, 07:01:09 am
You can never go wrong with Victory Gin
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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #16 on: February 22, 2006, 07:40:38 am
Read this from a one Finnish B5 fansite some time ago (when B5 was still airing here... so it's quite a long time ago actually)...
Anyway, they were trying to come up B5 drinks... here's on that includes gin.

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1cl Pernold
1cl Parfait Amour
2cl Gin

Mix them up, don't shake them.
Use ice if you feel like it.

Tastes a bit like flu medicine, but manages to be ok enough to call it a decent drink.
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Re: Bloody Gin
Reply #17 on: February 22, 2006, 03:25:28 pm
The better ($$$) the gin, the less it tastes like juniper.  Some of the 'store brand' gins out there are actually oily.  Disgusting.  I can't tolerate anything below Tanquerray.

If you can find it, there's a gin out there called #209 that is spectacular.  It's the Don Julio of Gin, I swear.  Awesome stuff.

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1 dash tabasco sauce
2 olives
1 spray sweet vermouth
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