Gin and tonic: the gentleman's drink

[Hitcher]

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.

[scumdog]

Awright, now onto the Yellowtail shiraz, ye-effing ha!!!

And watching AC/DC on C4..hoohaaa!!

Apparently the neighbours and the noise-control dude don't have the same appreciation of AC/DC and henceforth it will not be played at full volume at Chez Scumdog...

[jrandom]

One has a "secret" cupboard, location known only to a select few.

[Ixion]

This thread started out about gentlemen. How did you people get in here?

[Hitcher]

This thread started out about gentlemen. How did you people get in here?

It's late. The secret cupboard door fell open. The rest is history...

[scumdog]

It's late. The secret cupboard door fell open. The rest is history...

And the neighbours realise it ain't a secret no more..

[Hitcher]

The bastards. Burn them!

[vifferman]

A 40:60 ratio of Rum:Coke is about what I use.

Fuckin waaaaa Gin and tonic the drink of gentleman faggots. Ah now that I've got that off me Chest I am enjoying a nice CC and Coke over ice.

If you are a Rum drinker I go for appletons and coke,

For fucks sake!
What is worngA with you people!
ANYTHING and coke is like buying a Desmosedicci and putting diesel in the tank!
Actually , it's more like putting 50% industrial waste in the tank.

Putting ANYTHING with Appleton's is SACRILEGE!!!!!...akin to mixing dry ginger with Springbank........

Amen, Brudda! Word! And all that!
Gin and tonics are for pussies - drink Dutch gin neat (actually, Geneva gin - the Dutch adulterate it by putting a spoonful of sugar in it).

But I'd rather drink Belgian beer, or any decent red wine. I like white wine, but my crappy arthritic joints don't, nor do they like whisky any more, especially the peatier ones. But (however), bourbon seems fine. Shame it's inferior...

I dunno... to each his/her own, and all that. But I can't help cringing when people mix anything with coke. Noobs'n'peasants...

[Swoop]

Bunch of bloody snobs.

What's wrong with brasso strained through a stale loaf of bread ffs?

[vifferman]

Bunch of bloody snobs.

What's wrong with brasso strained through a stale loaf of bread ffs?

The alcohol content's too low, and it does funny things to amalgam fillings.

[scumdog]

Bunch of bloody snobs.

What's wrong with brasso strained through a stale loaf of bread ffs?

Frikkin' show-off having bread to spare... think of us po' folk.

[munterk6]

Bunch of bloody snobs.

What's wrong with brasso strained through a stale loaf of bread ffs?

Nothin'......if ya want to die a slow and horrible death!
make mine a Bombay 47% (dutyfree), mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[scumdog]

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.

One day..one day.. you ARE going to have the pleasure of my single-malt sipping abilities..

[slofox]

Frikkin show-off.


Now if I had a memory like yours....

And most of my 10 and 13 year old single-malts have been drunk..

It's OK Scumdog - I have a STORE......they are all for sale, not for me to drink....buggritbuggritbuggrit
Truth of the matter is, due to poor selection of ancestors, I have a condition that precludes the consumption of alcohol by myself.....hard yakka for a fine wine store owner........I have to taste but not consume. Still, it means I am NEVER over the limit to ride...hehehe. So there is some kind of silver lining in there....somewhere

[Skyryder]

Gordons is made...."from local neutral spirit and other imported ingredients"......ie it is made from whey alcohol and has imported botanicals soaked in it to give it gin flavour.
Bombay Sapphire is produced in a 'Carterhead" still. Here ya go.....

"The creation of Bombay Sapphire is truly unique. There are only a few Carterhead stills remaining in the world today and three are exclusive to Bombay Sapphire. Unlike many other gins, which boil their botanicals directly in the spirit to achieve their taste, the 10 botanicals in Bombay Sapphire are held separate from the spirit in a perforated copper basket. The Carterhead stills remove any last impurities in the spirit vapour before it passes up through the basket and in a process known as vapour infusion it is delicately infused with the aromatic flavours of the botanicals. The result is the complex and refined taste which gives Bombay Sapphire its extraordinary mixability."

So there you have it. I'd go with Bombay myself.....

So you're telling me that a gin that has only been produced by it's distillers since 1987 us superior to a gin that has been produced for two hundred years. Give me a Gordon's........'Yea right.'

But no matter what gin ya like it is a gentlemans tipple.


Skyryder