Gin and tonic: the gentleman's drink

[vifferman]

Yes, it IS isn't it...same with Stella - I had some genuine from an importer - we compared them side by side - wayyyy different......I get really annoyed when beers go 'local' and are brewed under licence.....

+1.
The "local" Heinekin, Stella, Tuborg, etc etc. are just NOT the same as the real brews. They can't be! There are too many subtle differences in ingredients and manufacturing.
I think it (and the taking over of popular boutique breweries) is a cunning plan by the two big brewing companies here to just market Steinlager in hundreds of different-looking bottles with the same contents. Charge a premium for a fancy label on a mass-produced swill.

[chrisso]

How much youse paying foe VB over there?

[vifferman]

One has a "secret" cupboard, location known only to a select few, sometimes not even to myself. Lessee wasinit...

Chivas Brothers Strathisla 12
Springbank Campbelltown 15
Bowmore 15
Glenmorrangie 10
Glenmorrange Port Wood Finish
Benriach 10
Old Fettercairn 10
The Glenlivet (French Limousin Oak) 12
The Glenlivet 12
Port Ellen 1979 bottled 1995
The Macallan 12
The Bruichladdich 10
Lagavulin 16
Glenfarclas 15
Talisker 18
Finlaggin 12
Balvenie Single Barrel 15

I'm getting a bit low. My stocks of island and Campbelltown malts aren't quite what they should be. Sigh.

I have a few of those, and a couple of what others have mentioned.
Can't drink them though.
Well - I can, but then I suffer for it.
Luckily the Appleton and absinthe drinking son (no - not together! although he's no doubt considered it...) also has a taste for single malts (in fact, he bought some of them), so he can drink them for me.
Strange that he should be at all discerning, given his predilection for drinking strange and expensive blue cocktails that should be illegal...
Mind you, maybe not. I reckon even the very expensive rums he favours are a bit too like Uhu glue to be safe...

[slofox]

How much youse paying foe VB over there?

I sell 6 VB cans for $NZ10.00.....

[The Stranger:Me]

I have witnessed Gays ordering it over the Bar...complete with Pineapple juice, is that the done thing???

You should know, you were buying them for everyone.

[Maha]

You should know, you were buying them for everyone.

Must thank you for the use of your Gold Card, did you enjoy your Pimms???

[Usarka]

+1.
The "local" Heinekin, Stella, Tuborg, etc etc. are just NOT the same as the real brews. They can't be! There are too many subtle differences in ingredients and manufacturing.
I think it (and the taking over of popular boutique breweries) is a cunning plan by the two big brewing companies here to just market Steinlager in hundreds of different-looking bottles with the same contents. Charge a premium for a fancy label on a mass-produced swill.

Stella's alcohol percentage is even different than the real stuff. WTF?

[bungbung]

Ummmmm, wots Tanquery? I think it's original - it's around $48- a bottle at Regional Wine & Spirits.

It's on the opening page of their website http://plymouthgin.com/

http://www.tanqueray.com/

No. 10: http://www.thedrinkshop.com/products...hp?prodid=1070

[Scouse]

OH ! So that means you are announcing that the Gay community are now into plastic motorcycles . Chrome is so yesterday.

No I believe the Gay community Faggots are still heavily into their MV Augusta Brutale 910R's. Are you still drinking Pimms loaded with assorted fruit, and do you still love your Proctologist?

[doc]

No I believe the Gay community Faggots are still heavily into their MV Augusta Brutale 910R's. Are you still drinking Pimms with loaded with assorted fruit and do you still love your Proctologist?

Well thats not the sort of comment one would expect in a Gentlemans thread like this. Maybe you should look for the 1% threads.

[Mom]

Oh so some rum, a deck chair, some rain and a slippery step is all you need to fuck your shoulder. I'd like to see that. When's your next party? You two must be due for one soon.

He went missing mate He was downstairs clearing up and it had all gone quiet, I went down to see if he was ok and the garage door was open no sign of him. The gate to the back yard was open so I figured he was up there. I came back upstairs and went out the back to look, no sign of him there either So back down stairs I go to find him standing there, soaking wet, holding his shoulder, looking very sorry for himself. Poor bugger, no one saw it, and there was no one to laugh at him either

And, indeed it is high time and long overdue that we had a gathering at ours, best we get a planning

Gin and tonic is for middle class bankers.

The only drink for a gentleman is port or claret (depending on your politics) . Single malt whisky is acceptable for medicinal purposes. Whisky. And whisky. Nothing else. Rum may be subsitutued for Naval types.

Port? Did you mention Port? Now see that is also a drink for the ladies Has a very um... interesting side effect on us DAMHIK

I definitely use Schweppes Indian Tonic Water.

G&T is my summer camping drink of choice. One year I was amazed my son kept leaping up to pour me drink after drink?? Very strange behaviour indeed. I had been to the local shop to buy the tonic and all they had was PAMS or some such disgusting excuse for tonic. Being an apprentice pisshead I knew I could never drink my Gin straight so settled for it

The drinks my son was making tasted disgusting to say the least, but not being a complainer I drank them. This went on for a couple of days until we could get to the liquor supply shop. I buy the replacement bottle of Gin and several Schweppes tonics for good measure. Get back to camp in time for happy hour and pour myself this lovely G&T!

It was bliss...

Then I saw my son laughing...

When I asked what was so funny we said I WAS!

Apparently he had watered my Gin down a few days before hand, the Pams shit tonic disguised the taste of no Gin, I had been sober for days!!!!

Little shits my kids

[michael]

Nice description of how to make a GnT, you must be goin to westy bars to get your drinks though, all they drink out there is bourbon and coke, they like the taste of sugar I think (instead of alcohol). I worked in bars in CBD for a couple of years and you gotta be a dip shit to fuck up a GnT, only addition I'd make would be to rim the glass with lime.

[The Stranger:Me]

Must thank you for the use of your Gold Card, did you enjoy your Pimms???

That's ok, I just hope you enjoyed the Pineapple juice later is all.

[Ocean1]

a fancy label on a mass-produced swill.

Dude, we invented the continuous brewing process, this is the home of mass produced swill.

'Course everyone else's is mass produced too, just different swill.

[jrandom]

Nice description of how to make a GnT, you must be goin to westy bars to get your drinks though, all they drink out there is bourbon and coke, they like the taste of sugar I think (instead of alcohol).

I don't, as a rule, go to bars. Certainly not the horrible noisy sorts full of lawyers and marketing consultants.

The only two drinking establishments in Auckland that I patronise on a regular basis are the Crow Bar, where I order whatever the guys there feel like making me at the time (they know way more about the art of drinking than I do) and Galbraiths, for porter and Laphroaig-by-the-glass.