Show Me Your Gin!

[NordicCrankShaft]

The Monkey 47 is lovely, with Fevertree!

But Hendricks is the staple of my collection at the moment!

Looking forward to some family coming over to visit as a prerequisite is that they bring a bottle of nice Gin....Should boost the collection a bit

[gizlaroc]

Monkey 47 for me.

Neat over crushed ice with a twist of lemon.

[TJS10]

I am a big fan of Foxdenton gin.

http://www.foxdentonestate.co.uk/48-dry-london-gin...

[NordicCrankShaft]

Managed to pick up some Bombay Sapphire Star of Bombay and some Bulldog London Dry at duty free today, looking forward to tasting them!

[SHutchinson]

I bought a bottle of this at a gin festival last weekend, it's delicious served with cucumber.

http://www.twobirdsspirits.co.uk/OurSpirits.aspx#g...

[loafer123]

I've recently received a bottle of Pink Pepper Gin...



...which is just a little odd.

[yellowtang]

Last year my Wife purchased a old French sideboard - I decided to set up my own Gin bar!

There would be more, if only I'd stop drinking so often.....

From the left;
No3
Geranium
The Botanist
Tanquaray 10
Six O'clock Gin
Sacred
Martin Millers
Bloom
Williams Chase
Portabelo Road
Beefeater 24
Berkeley Square
Silent Pool
Langtons
Bath Gin
Cold River Gin

Williams Extra Dry
Whitley Neil
Sipsmith
Adnams First Rate
Tarquins
Rock Rose
Haymans Old Tom
Bombay Extra Dry
Tanquaray
Tanquaray Rangpur
Plymouth
Gin Mare
Spirit of London
Blackwoods

Monkey 47
Tailored Gin (bespoke to me, by Cambridge Distillery)
Caorunn
Opihr
Pink 47
Hendricks
Edinburgh Gin
Bulldog
Boe

Japanese Gin (Cambridge Distillery)
Autumn/winter 2013 (Cambridge Distillery)

[Chimune]

Supermarket Gin Test:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/1...

If you cant be bothered to click:


1. Morrisons London Dry Gin (80%) £10.49

2. Lidl Castelgy London Dry Gin (78%) £9.99

3. Waitrose London Dry Gin (78%) £12

4. Greenall’s London Dry Gin (77%) £15

5. Beefeater Dry Gin (76%) £16

6. Asda London Dry Gin (75%) £11

7. Sainsbury’s London Dry Gin (74%) £11.50

8. Aldi Oliver Cromwell London Dry Gin (74%) £9.99

9. Gordon’s Special Dry London Gin (74%) £16

10. The Cooperative London Dry Gin (73%) £11.99

[JRM]

NordicCrankShaft said:

The Monkey 47 is lovely, with Fevertree!

Exactly right that man, fantastic combination

[Fluffsri]

Bit of a Brockmans fan here. Lovely with a piece of ginger.

[ekky2000]

Fluffsri said:

Bit of a Brockmans fan here. Lovely with a piece of ginger.

Brockmans with a splash of ginger ale

Robin of Locksley Gin with just ice

Liverpool Gin with Fevertree Tonic

Just weird chocolate gin with orange juice at one fair

[Captain Benzo]

another fan of Old Raj here.
quite strong and the colour of weak piss, but makes a fantastic G&T, fever tree only for me.

[don4l]

Chimune said:

Supermarket Gin Test:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/1...

If you cant be bothered to click:


1. Morrisons London Dry Gin (80%) £10.49

2. Lidl Castelgy London Dry Gin (78%) £9.99

3. Waitrose London Dry Gin (78%) £12

4. Greenall’s London Dry Gin (77%) £15

5. Beefeater Dry Gin (76%) £16

6. Asda London Dry Gin (75%) £11

7. Sainsbury’s London Dry Gin (74%) £11.50

8. Aldi Oliver Cromwell London Dry Gin (74%) £9.99

9. Gordon’s Special Dry London Gin (74%) £16

10. The Cooperative London Dry Gin (73%) £11.99

That list is interesting.

I normally have Hendricks or Tanqueray. I recently tried Aldi's "Oliver Cromwell" gin. I like it.

Based on the list above, I will get a bottle of the Lidl gin this weekend.


The tonic that I use is Waitrose own label. I find it indistinguishable from Schweppes, and it is half the price.

[ooo000ooo]

My Sister, all her Gin drinking mates and my wife love Shortcross gin, according to their website they won a silver medal at some international spirit competition. It's 30 odd quid a bottle if that's any guide to quality?

[addz86]

A spot of Tanqueray, I find the little Schweppes cans with a double gin work about perfect

[Chimune]

Yup - I now get a bottle of T10 for my birthday every year. Its lovely stuff !

Gonna have to try some of the Morrisons & Lidl ones for when guests are round. Cant be giving them my T10. No sir !

Edited by Chimune on Wednesday 19th August 21:14

[don4l]

Chimune said:

Yup - I now get a bottle of T10 for my birthday every year. Its lovely stuff !

Gonna have to try some of the Morrisons & Aldi ones for when guests are round. Cant be giving them my T10. No sir !

After my earlier post about the Aldi gin, I spent a little time on Google.

The result was that I discovered that one of the main differences between gins is what are called "botanicals", in other words - spices. Common spices seem to include things like cloves or/and cinnamon.

The Aldi gin is very "clean". It doesn't have any strong tastes. Gordons, for me is a bit rough.

In wine terms, Chablis, Sancerre and Pouilly Fume are very "clean". However, I can see that many people would think that they don't have much flavour.

So, tonight I poured some Aldi gin into a glass and I added a clove. I left it for 10 minutes before adding the tonic, ice and zest of lime.

It is delicious.

I think that the clove will last for three drinks.

Tomorrow night I will try some cinnamon.

[Podie]

Death's Door and Glorious Gin

[Mobile Chicane]

We have 13 on constant rotation:

Tanqueray Export
6 o'clock
Bloom
Silent Pool
Gin Mare
Opihr
Hendricks
Hampstead (from Lidl)
Adnam's Copper House
Rangpur
Plymouth Gin
Star of Bombay
BB&R No 3

However, in all honesty, of all these the only ones which for me are 'different' enough to justify the cost over boggo Gordon's are Silent Pool, Gin Mare, Hendricks and Opihr.

[PorkInsider]

addz86 said:

A spot of Tanqueray, I find the little Schweppes cans with a double gin work about perfect

Fevertree are now doing little cans, too.