Gin

[C8RKH]

5 minutes ago, ian29gte said:

 

Yeah, sorry about that, I can get a bit carried away sometimes.

Lol - and of course I would never get carried away - I've not had a "oh FFS, for crying out loud moment" today. I live in hope!

 

[pete]

16 hours ago, ian29gte said:

I'm not brave enough to venture in to my local Aldi.

afraid you might like it? They do a lovely gin by the way

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/bargain-bottle-aldi-gin-wins-10107466

[Chillidoggy]

9 hours ago, pete said:

afraid you might like it? They do a lovely gin by the way

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/bargain-bottle-aldi-gin-wins-10107466

No, just afraid.

[Bibs]

8 hours ago, Buddsy said:

Id drank the whole bottle of wifeys bombay sapphire and was a bit skint and embarrassed so filled the bottle up with the Aldi stuff...which I then also drank but with out back to back tasting I think it was semi ok but nothing to write home about.

 You're so getting grassed up next time I see Hot T

[CaptainSlow]

Some of us got hooked on COTSWOLDS DRY GIN last Summer (during our little road trip in England). Next week it will become available in Sweden as well (heavily regulated sale of wine and liquor here)!

[DaveC72]

On 01/09/2015 at 23:41, Loose Cannon said:

This thread is straight out of The Chap magazine.

 

Bombay Sapphire but plan on trying some different ones. What's Plymouth like?

Plymouth Gin is magnificent - but make sure you go for the "Naval Strength".

Penderyn/ Brecon Gin also mighty fine.

Shameless plug for this, which is my not only my favourite Gin - but run by one of my closest friends.

 

[pete]

Sitting next to the wife I said I love you,she said is that the gin talking, I said no I was talking to the gin.

[pete]

This week's favourite

[andydclements]

Somehow I'd missed this thread before.

last summer, I was in Hampshire and bought a bottle of Test Valley as a present (at the time I wasn't aware it was a company only a few months old). I'm told it was very good, and recently purchased the same person a selection of the Adnams ones, of which apparently the Copperhouse. Now that I know we have an award-winning gin created here in Norwich I think one of their tasting tours is in order (once the weather is nice).

[pete]

Consider yourself rebuked for your previous misses but made up for it with that tour posting. If you book give us a pm and we may come along

[pete]

[andydclements]

The Bullards distillery tours still seem to be booked out, but there is this- a train journey with stops to sample gin.

 

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/gin-train-experience-is-coming-to-norfolk-1-5446308

https://www.railroadevents.com/#/gintrain/

 

[pete]

Going to Bullards end of month

[Chillidoggy]

You do realise that Sparky’s a majority shareholder in Fever Tree?

[andydclements]

1 hour ago, pete said:

Going to Bullards end of month

And there was me believing their site when it said they were booked up. I was planning to buy a couple of trips as a pressie for somebody.

[pete]

Spent a very pleasant Saturday afternoon  on tour of Bullard's gin distillery in Norwich and was surprised how small an area it needed to produce 350 bottles a week. 

[pete]

next month we are on a gin cruise on the river lee followed by a visit to the Puddingstone distillery makers of Campfire gin

http://www.ginontheriver.co.uk/index.html

https://puddingstonedistillery.com/

[andydclements]

It was a friend's birthday yesterday, the person who got the Bullards as a pressie . For her birthday, I gave her a bottle of Copperhouse (Adnams) as she commented previously that it was the one she preferred from the selection pack that was the Christmas pressie. She got another bottle of Copperhouse, from somebody else. It must look as though we think she needs it in bulk quantities. 

[mayevora]

Here one from Exmouth that a friend of mine owns. He only distills small numbers at the moment (only started last year) Not cheap but very nice indeed. On my 2nd bottle. 👍😊

 

https://www.copperfrogdistilling.co.uk/

[Chillidoggy]

The wife has now returned to Opihr as her favourite. Not that she won’t try others, but the black pepper taste is addictive, as is gin in general. I shall look forward to the gin cruise report, Pete.

[Sparky]

I knocked up my own very peppery batch recently.  It was well popular.  Masala next!

[pete]

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/ginvest

[Bibs]

Saturday night in my local. 24 gins, Ryan Reynold's Aviation American gin was my top tipple. 

[Dan.G]

We've got a few on the go....

[andydclements]

I'm currently attacking the Whitley Neill Rhubarb & Ginger, paired with cucumber & mint presse. The glass is defective, as it self-empties in just a couple of mins, must swap to a pint glass to see if that rectifies the problem.