The Gins thread

[spongebob59]

Thought I'd start a thread on Gins to recommend or avoid

My favourites ATM are

Roku

Ukiyo Tokyo dry gin

Bombay Citron Pressed

One to avoid us the Ophir black lemon. Was on offer last week in Sainsbury's, awful

 

[chellie]

Some of my favourites are Blackpowder Flintlock, Song Cai and a Whitley Neil gooseberry gin.

I found craft gin club good and was a member for a while but did have a big discount on it at the tine. Definitely worth joining in time to get their Christmas box.

 

[GreiginFife]

Botanist
London No.3
Brooklyn

Thats my usual go to three.

I am also a fan of Tanquerry No.10

 

[SatchFan]

Slake Gin - made by a local distillery in West Sussex
Whitley Neil Mango and Papaya
Gordon's Passionfruit

 

[Marshy77]

Original Whitley Neil's
Whitaker's original
Plymouth

Avoid Bombay Sapphire and Gordon's

 

[Mudball]

Opinion on Silent Pool .. Not very far from our place.
The gin is not bad.. but sometimes I feel they seem to be better at Marketing than the gin itself

 

[KenL]

Harris
Botanist
Ophir - very strange smell but weirdly enjoyable.

 

[Marshy77]

Opinion on Silent Pool .. Not very far from our place.
The gin is not bad.. but sometimes I feel they seem to be better at Marketing than the gin itself

Feels like a lot of gins are good are marketing and the taste is pretty meh. A lot of the flavoured gins don't really taste like what they're supposed to be, more a change in colour.

 

[GreiginFife]

Feels like a lot of gins are good are marketing and the taste is pretty meh. A lot of the flavoured gins don't really taste like what they're supposed to be, more a change in colour.

This is why I don’t like flavoured gin.

The botanicals are meant to be the gin’s flavour. Anything on top of that is just artificial tasting to me.

I don’t like my gin too floral but not bland either. Brooklyn is probably as strong as I go, botanically speaking.

 

[Pin-seeker]

Didn’t realise men drank Gin

 

[KenL]

Didn’t realise men drank Gin

 

[Marshy77]

Didn’t realise men drank Gin

It's the new hazy style IPA new England tropical mango lassi ale.

 

[Mandofred]

The wife likes Tanqueray. But in the last year has had several bottles as gifts of No.3 London Dry Gin....triangle shaped bottle with a key on the bottle. She says it is noticeably nicer.

 

[Crazyface]

Nasty horrible stuff. Drink the stuff pirates do....RUM.

 

[3offTheTee]

We like gin but have to say there seems to be some that know far more than I.
Couple of questions
1. Can you tell the difference between gins? how,is a good hin determined as it is now our drink compared to Vodka?
2. How much should I be paying for a litre?
3. we like Tanquerary ( spelling). Where is that on the scale?

We have had Aldi gin. Sorry!

 

[Pin-seeker]

 

[HampshireHog]

Opinion on Silent Pool .. Not very far from our place.
The gin is not bad.. but sometimes I feel they seem to be better at Marketing than the gin itself

Isn’t all Gin about marketing?

My wife runs a local Gin Festival so we have a lot of different bottles kicking about very few have been unpleasant.

Nibbs is one of the good ones she will buy, also localish to you if you are near the Silent Pool distillery.

 

[spongebob59]

We like gin but have to say there seems to be some that know far more than I.
Couple of questions
1. Can you tell the difference between gins? how,is a good hin determined as it is now our drink compared to Vodka?
2. How much should I be paying for a litre?
3. we like Tanquerary ( spelling). Where is that on the scale?

We have had Aldi gin. Sorry!

See post #9.
Most supermarkets have offers for example Sainsbury's have the Whitley Neil directors cut down £9 to £20 which is very nice

 

[GreiginFife]

The wife likes Tanqueray. But in the last year has had several bottles as gifts of No.3 London Dry Gin....triangle shaped bottle with a key on the bottle. She says it is noticeably nicer.

No.3 is on my top three list. Its very nice, subtle flavour and very smooth.

If she likes Tanqueray then, if she hasn’t tried it, their No.10 is very much like London No.3 in its subtleness.

 

[MadAdey]

I can't get enough of this........

Edinburgh gin rhubarb and ginger with fever tree elderflower tonic.