#SpritzerGate

Sometimes he is.

Not sure if accidental or not, but.

 

Gin and slimline is a fine drink. Bit of lime or cucumber. Only 70 calories. Winner.

 

Yeah, it’s popularity among the poor in 18th Century London caused Parliament to consider banning it. Gin is basically the Special Brew of spirit drinking.

 

I was in a bar drinking my ale, eventually got talking to some guy who i noticed had a girly drink. I asked what it was, fooked if I can remember the flavour but basically Gin! He goes try some, obviously he picked up on my look of disgust. Gin is gin right!....never was my favourite spirit, although palatable. Anyway the guy knew the landlady of the establishment and before I could say anymore, I was given a free glass of the stuff, it contained raspberries FFS!

Anyway, swifly looking around to check no one was watching ready to take a picture, I tried the stuff, it would have been rude not too. Actually it didn't taste bad and certainly different to how I remembered Gin tasting.....until it hit the back of the throat and that distinct taste came back to me, so would probably make a good mouth wash, but just don't swallow........take those thoughts out of your head readers!

Would I buy a glass, nope, I'd rather stick to rum or jd.

 

You’ve never tasted the joy of pink gin, Archie.

It’s orgasmic.

 

I like a G&T. Haven't tried many of the new fancy ones, a regular G&T will do for me. We do have a bottle of christmas pud gin which is pretty rank. A few years ago we went to a wedding where each guest was given a small commemorative bottle of sloe gin with the wedding meal. That was tasty.

 

Was given a bottle of Sipsmith sloe gin by football mums at end of last season. Very nice, it didn't last long.

A normal dry London gin with tonic, ice and slice of lime is great. Especially on a summers evening.

My preference is Tanquaray gin with schweppes slimline tonic. Buy the small cans of tonic, the bottles go flat quickly once they've been opened.

I do like some of the flavoured stuff though. Tanquaray do an orange and a lime flavoured.

A rhubarb or damson goes well with a spicy ginger beer too.

 

We need to educate some of these boys @Chief

 

Looks like Quasi, the ****

 

Your jokes are as bad as Spurs trying to win a trophy.

 

Probably tastes like spew

 

These flavoured gins are not actually gin. They are gin liquors. Read the small print on them.

 

No, they aren't mate, sorry

Some are indeed liqueurs, most are gin. Full strength.

 

Some Flavoured gin can be gin. Some are so heavily flavoured though, that it becomes arguable as to whether they should be called gin or not really. Juniper is to be the most prevalent botanical in a gin, but some you can;t taste the juniper at all

 

Yeah, ok mate, whatever.

Any flavoured gin I've referred to is gin.

 

Gin is just vodka in fancy dress ...

 

That was a copy and paste from my mate who has a training and events company for bars and works with Diageo . He does all the promotions and event launches for a lot of these new gins. He is in the know.

 

There’s going to be a fight over gin. It’s like whiskeygate all over again.