Liquor and Wine and Mixed Drinks

[Letang Is The Truth]

the difference in the cost:quality ratio between scotch and bourbon is astounding to me

[count2infinity]

what do the gin drinkers here drink? I'm a fan of bombay sapphire and tanqueray rangpur, but have never ventured a lot past those two (other than crappy stuff like seagrams)

[Letang Is The Truth]

i dont drink a lot of gin straight up but i use bombay sapphire for all my gin drinks i make. i like the juniperiness

[count2infinity]

what gin do you drink straight up? sapphire?

[Letang Is The Truth]

i think the more appropriate statement would have been: i never drink gin straight up

[count2infinity]

oh... sorry. misread that. I thought you said you DO drink gin straight up.

[Troy Loney]

If you're drinking gin straight, you probably have a problem.

[Letang Is The Truth]

oh... sorry. misread that. I thought you said you DO drink gin straight up.

i did say that. i should have worded it differently.

[slappybrown]

The most appropriate statement is I never drink gin because: gross bro.

[mikey287]

Can't really ever get into gin, but maybe that's because I've only tried cheap garbage...

[Letang Is The Truth]

i never really liked gin until i wanted to try a few different cocktails and i really like gin-based cocktails.

[columbia]

Can't really ever get into gin, but maybe that's because I've only tried cheap garbage...

Try a Bombay Sapphire gin and tonic.
If you don't like that, then you probably don't like gin.

[eddysnake]

beefeater

[count2infinity]

Can't really ever get into gin, but maybe that's because I've only tried cheap garbage...

Try a Bombay Sapphire gin and tonic.
If you don't like that, then you probably don't like gin.

add a squeeze of lime too.

[mikey287]

Can't really ever get into gin, but maybe that's because I've only tried cheap garbage...

Try a Bombay Sapphire gin and tonic.
If you don't like that, then you probably don't like gin.

add a squeeze of lime too.

Thanks, gents.

[Sigwolf]

Love, love, love Rangpur in gin & tonics, with regular Tanqueray a fine second choice. Beefeater's will do on the odd chance Tanqueray is unavailable. Do not care for Bombay at all, and would drink something other than gin if that was the only one available. For martini's (ie, straight, because who really needs vermouth?), I like Hendrick's a lot.

[Shyster]

Hendrick's and Bluecoat gin are both very good. If you can find it, Junipero Gin from Anchor Distilling is great.

Speaking of gin, does anyone else like Pimm's No. 1? I've really gotten into Pimm's this summer, and I wish more of the English fruit cups would make their way across the pond. A fruit cup is a liqueur designed to be added to a soft drink like lemonade or ginger ale. Pimm's is based on gin with a bunch of other flavors and liquors added. Take a tall glass, add ice and a big shot of Pimm's, and top off with lemonade. If you have any fruit or garnish around like oranges, strawberries, lemons, limes, mint, etc., throw some in too. Great drink on a hot summer day.

[Letang Is The Truth]

anyone know where to get pappy van winkle around here

[KennyTheKangaroo]

bulleit and eagle rare for me, don't even need a glass.

inspired by this and slappys suggestion, this gentleman got some bulleit over the weekend and had a glass on the rocks the other night after a day of playing baseball/volleyball.

this gentleman slept well, lets put it that way.

[Shyster]

anyone know where to get pappy van winkle around here

Not in PA, apparently. I looked at the LCB's website, and Rip Van Winkle doesn't show up in any of the categories—not even special order.

[PghSkins]

Can't really ever get into gin, but maybe that's because I've only tried cheap garbage...

Try a Bombay Sapphire gin and tonic.
If you don't like that, then you probably don't like gin.

Not sure how I missed it earlier, but this guy gets it.

[Shyster]

Gin is essentially a flavored white spirit (basically the original flavored vodka), so the quality of the gin is highly dependent on the quality of the flavorings, the number and proportion of aromatics, and the skill and care in which they are used. More expensive gin is generally going to have more expensive and varied ingredients. It strikes me as something where going cheap is a bad, bad option.

[Eismann]

Was at a wedding this weekend. Open bar at rehearsal dinner had Macallan 18. Thank you, father of the groom.

Related, the bar at the crappy hotel had Macallan 25, which is now going for $800+ a bottle, more than double since 2007. AndImAllLikeWhaaaaaaaaa!?!

[Factorial]

No drug is worth $800/bottle.

[Letang Is The Truth]

Was at a wedding this weekend. Open bar at rehearsal dinner had Macallan 18. Thank you, father of the groom.

Related, the bar at the crappy hotel had Macallan 25, which is now going for $800+ a bottle, more than double since 2007. AndImAllLikeWhaaaaaaaaa!?!

wow impressive x2