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Was in New Orleans this past Saturday and decided to stop by Dorgnac's to re-stock the liquor cabinet. Was contempating whether or not to buy a liter of Bombay Saphire for summer drinks when a comely lass suggested that I try something called Hendericks-said once I try it, I'll never drink another Gin ever again. SO I figured wht the heck and bought a litre-it was made in Scotland so I figured it had to be pretty tasty. Well, I just made a DRY martini (read that a shot of Hendericks and a passing thought about vermouth) and WOW is this stuff good :eek: The aromatics put the Bombay to shame-I could sit and enjoy this in a snifter !! Can't wait to try it with a dash of angourstora bitters, a twist of lemon and a splash of quinine water (tonic for you colonials :D). Not a heavy gin drinker but this stuff is GOOD!!!
 
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That sounds pretty good. Half the fun of a gin drink is the aroma.
Hot weather is closing in on us here and I kind of take to the tonic water up to cool weather.
A Scottish gin, what will they think of next?
Thanks for the tip
Mike
 
I have tried Hendrick's. It's pretty good, but it won't replace Sapphire for me. Another one I like is Citadelle, completely different, but quite good.

Both of those are way too expensive for me to be putting tonic in them. For that, I like Booth's.
 
Years ago the folks working liquor stores looked like retired prize fighters. I have noticed a marketing change, at least in the south.

"Comely Lass" must be part of the job description, as I know of (and haunt) several package stores nearby representing that business model.

These truly are "the good old days".
 
I'm cheap, so when I drink gin and tonic( which it isn't nearly hot enough to do yet...) I buy Gordon's in a liter bottle, Kroger brand tonic water, and the best limes I can find.
 
I like gin, too.

Did you guys know it was originally considered a low class drink in England? The toffs drank port or whatever.
 
charlie sherrill said:
About 50 or so years ago myself and some friends mixed some kind of gin with some grape Kool-Aid after eating stolen green plums. I haven't drank gin since then.
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Similar thing happened to my Pop at around the same time, only it was Welch's grape juice and gin, mixed in a bathtub. I think his friends called it "Purple Jesus".
 
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CAJUNLAWYER said:
Was in New Orleans this past Saturday and decided to stop by Dorgnac's to re-stock the liquor cabinet. Was contempating whether or not to buy a liter of Bombay Saphire for summer drinks when a comely lass suggested that I try something called Hendericks-said once I try it, I'll never drink another Gin ever again. SO I figured wht the heck and bought a litre-it was made in Scotland so I figured it had to be pretty tasty. Well, I just made a DRY martini (read that a shot of Hendericks and a passing thought about vermouth) and WOW is this stuff good :eek: The aromatics put the Bombay to shame-I could sit and enjoy this in a snifter !! Can't wait to try it with a dash of angourstora bitters, a twist of lemon and a splash of quinine water (tonic for you colonials :D). Not a heavy gin drinker but this stuff is GOOD!!!
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Sir, I've heard good things about Hendricks from others as well. I've even eyeballed it at the local likker barn, but so far have resisted it for fear of developing expensive tastes.

Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.

Ron H.
 
charlie sherrill said:
About 50 or so years ago myself and some friends mixed some kind of gin with some grape Kool-Aid after eating stolen green plums. I haven't drank gin since then.
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Hmmm... I had a similiar experience myself, back in the days of my foolish youth. Quote the raven... "Never more".
 
Gin and grape Kool-Aid? Reminds me of the famous worst drink of all time: gin and tomato juice, known to barflies everywhere as the...

Bloody Awful.
 
I was done in by Gin and Squirt about 45 years ago, never to go near gin again.

Now I just stick with the expensive wines like Thunderbird.
 
CAJUNLAWYER said:
Was in New Orleans this past Saturday and decided to stop by Dorgnac's to re-stock the liquor cabinet. Was contempating whether or not to buy a liter of Bombay Saphire for summer drinks when a comely lass suggested that I try something called Hendericks-said once I try it, I'll never drink another Gin ever again. SO I figured wht the heck and bought a litre-it was made in Scotland so I figured it had to be pretty tasty. Well, I just made a DRY martini (read that a shot of Hendericks and a passing thought about vermouth) and WOW is this stuff good :eek: The aromatics put the Bombay to shame-I could sit and enjoy this in a snifter !! Can't wait to try it with a dash of angourstora bitters, a twist of lemon and a splash of quinine water (tonic for you colonials :D). Not a heavy gin drinker but this stuff is GOOD!!!
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Had you been paying appropriately close attention to my previous posts, you'd have noticed my long-since mention of this remarkably sophisticated distillation. I'd not pollute it with any of the contaminants you've mentioned, save a tiny splash of dry vermouth (a bottlecap full of Martini & Rossi, to three jiggers of Hendricks, is my favored formula). I recommend keeping its dark, almost opaque bottle in the coldest part of your refrigerator, so as not to have to dilute it with ice melt to cool it. A martini glass chilled in the freezer, and chilled olives complete the ambrosial concoction.

How is it that the inhabitants of that damp island can get some things, like this divine gin, so right, and other things, like bagpipes, and Lucas electrical components, so wrong?
 
Hendricks is good Gin, but not Gin is as good as Bombay Saphire, IMHO.

I first learned to drink Bombay Saphire Gin, from Richard Marcinko, personally.

Everytime I taste it, I think of him.

He was a Man well ahead of his time...
 
I am not a gin drinker, so I really don't have a dog in the fight, but my wife, who has a total of 10 drinks or less a year is. She is a fan of both Saphire and Henderick's but she really like's Martin Miller's. Just one more option for those of you out there who like the stuff.
 
What is it about the Brits, gin and the tropics? I spent a year at taxpayer expense in a very hot and damp climate, but never got the gin habit.
 
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