The gin thing is getting out of hand

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Bog standard gin plus ordinary tonic, dash of elderflower cordial, ice, slice of cucumber (I am trying to keep on trend). Works for me! I can't be bothered with forty different gins to choose from. They all taste the same after the third one. I'm just trying to economise.

I’m with you. I find it all a bit cringey. Just have a G&T (if you actually like it that is, not just because it’s suddenly trendy) and stop wittering on about it.

I've tried, but I just don't like gin very much - even the artisan, hand-produced, virgin soils, etc etc ones. The odd one is okay, don't mind a gin cocktail, but I'd much rather have a glass of wine.

Can't drink gin (I get violent) but I do like a nice vodka and tonic... I'm a bit gutted that you can't get so many trendy vodkas (although if that were to happen, I might just become a complete lush 😂)

The best gin I have had is from Islay alley the Botanist, it tastes so good you can drink it just on the rocks.
Had a bottle of the Harris gin too, very drinkable but not as good as the Botanist but the bottle is beautiful! They tried to sell us some 'seaweed water' or something like it for an extra £20- er no!
Best everyday gin is Aldi's expensive one, £14-15 per bottle, can't remember what they call it!

DH has brought lots of different gins home but I've never found one I like more than the Bombay Sapphire in the blue bottle. Am I a gin philistine?

I can appreciate a good crisp G&T at 30 000ft, apart from that I couldn't really give a toss.

Mother's ruin

The gin fad is so boring and predictable. Why do so many jump on the bandwagon? ‘I want it in a gin balloon and only Fever Tree tonic for me,’

we always used to buy Bombay sapphire gin but the fact that you add tonic just seems pointless. Now it's Lidl gin and tonic with lime and TBH we don't taste the difference. Maybe if you drink it straight (yuck IMHO) then you taste the difference.

I was going to say it's rum's turn now.

Forgive me father for I have ginned...

I love gin and have been drinking it for years too. I don’t mind the gin boom at all, it has made buying different ones very easy.

I currently have:

Aldi London gin (or glugging gin as it’s known here)
Opihr- my favourite. Smells like curry, tastes divine
Rock Rose - I love this with Hibiscus tonic
Brighton Gin
Tanquaray 10
Warner Edwards Honeybee gin

Agree with Megan Aldi Gin is good throwing gin and what we make flavoured gin with. Gooseberry gin is lush, after you have strained the fruit, pop it in the freezer and keep it for the Christmas pud.

Most Schweppes has sweetener in it. They now do a 1783 range which is sweetener free and tastes like it used to. Fevertree is great especially the light version.

Negronis are so passe , try a Jasmine:- juice of a whole lemon, double shot of gin, half a shot of Cointreau and half a shot of Campari, add a splash of tonic if you wish to stay awake.

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Gin = yuck!
Rum = yuck!
I don't think i will ever be an in fashion drinker 😄

I've always loved gin and tonic, so refreshing and doesn't give me a headache like wine does.

My favourite is Brockmans. So smooth. Also love Monkey 47, Bedrock and Caourunn. Loads more too. Don't really like spiced gin. There was an Aldi one on sale over Christmas which was fantastic, Boyles I think it was called.

I love having so many to choose from, if others think it's boring and predictable, or that I only drink it because they reckon I'm jumping on a bandwagon well, think what you want really, it doesn't bother me.

Sorry op but yabu. I love trying all the different gins. This evening I've been drinking plum gin which was actually made by me. I got ginvent last Christmas which I really enjoyed and have had some of the ones I tried since.

My DD is into fancy Nancy gins and says they are great and do not taste like medicine.

However, firstly they cost a fortune and secondly, if I ever get fed up with Gordon’s, low cal tonic, ice and lemon I will let everyone know.

Rum: it’s the future.

I love a nice dark rum. Brings out the pirate in me.

Surely rum can be made from sugar beet?

Its vile but doesn't give a hangover

Ok I’m buying some gin tomorrow. Does anyone care to recommend me anything? Apart from some Swedish crafty ones that I suppose no one will have tried and that are a bit expensive anyway I can choose from:
Hendricks
Bombay Sapphire
Platinum gin rosé (I think not)
Gilbey’s
Plymouth Sloe
Gordon’s
Beefeater
Albury hand crafted
Langley’s
Tanqueray

Also an Italian one called Biostilla that’s a good price but has a plastic bottle which makes me suspicious. Anyone want to give me pointers?

DH and I love gin - subscribe to a gin club, the whole shebang, but always revert back to two favourite gins - Conker gin, Rock Rose, Gin Mare and Tanqueray Rangpur. All are incredibly smooth.
Different gins work well with different mixers and garnishes, so I get some people having lots of different types.
Some gins, however, are rough and we wouldn’t touch them even as a cocktail mixer.
We’ve always drunk gin as our drink of choice, before it became ‘the thing’ and will do after tastes move on. We do get pissed off at the evangelical or trendy gin drinkers (ginstagrammers, looking at you).

Anything you like banivani, just make sure you get some decent tonic (no sweetener) to go with it. Hendricks is a perfectly decent gin, you might also want to pick up a vermouth (any fecking colour you fancy) and some limes. Then relax and enjoy. Some of us have been on the gin for many decades. (good grief, that makes me sound like such a lush)(I blame my ex-flat mate, a Savoy barman), (then again I could blame father, have been mixing martinis for as long as I can remember).

I’m not much of a connoisseur you see pesty, so I was hoping someone would say oh absolutely that one and then I can get one that was Recommended ;). We’ve had Hendricks before and I kind of thought the bottle was a tad prettier that the gin ifywim. I’m going to go mad on the tonic, no worries.

I have to say I am a recent convert to gin after my MIL got me drunk on it last year.

And I have to say I think it has helped me loose weight. I was mostly drinking 0% Radler (which makes up for lack of alcohol with a shit load of sugar) or cider. Switching to Gin and sugar free tonic (which I have to have) I'm sure has helped