To ask what your favourite gin is?

[noisenoisenoisenoise]

Currently on calorie counting so I've been parted with my favourite Prosecco since the 2 Jan.

I've been drinking gin instead as my second favourite tipple of choice. Currently I'm liking Hendrick's but I get bored.

Should I stick, or twist?

I do love a gin.

My favourite that I return to time and time again Edinburgh Raspberry Gin.
I love anything raspberry flavoured, so Edinburgh, Riverside, Whitney Neil.
Orange Gins - love the Seville Tanqueray and their Ranjpur Lime one is lovely.
Peuerta Das Indias Strawberry Gin is also a favourite
I liked the Tarquins Strawberry and Lime

Do i have to pick one Gin?

Isle of Harris
Gorse Gin
Bathtub Gin
Hendricks
Lakes Gin
Lakes Explorer Gin
Edinburgh Gin
Edinburgh Apple and Cinnamon Gin

Indian tonic is sweeter than slimline
I find the complete opposite. Slimline tonics are horribly artificially sweet and just give me an instant headache. Also leave a nasty aftertaste in the mouth. I like the ones with naturally low sugar and no nasties like fever tree light and Schweppes light. If I can't get hold of one of those I'd take a normal tonic over slimline any day.

Unfortunately, most 'normal' tonics have sweetners in, so you have to be careful.

Usually it's only the posh stuff like Fever Tree that are only sweetned with sugar. But the same can be said for Waitrose, no sweetner and only 52 calories in 250 ml, so it's got to be lower sugar and hence less sweet than most standard mixers.

Ophir is my favourite cheap gin - with a slice of root ginger and some coriander it's lovely.

I have a gin club subscription which means a bottle of something different each. There has only been one I haven't liked and each month I have a new favourite

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Yet here you are

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Whatever makes you happy I suppose!

Gin has been my fave drink since I was a teenager!!! I love:

Castle gate
Edinburgh
Edinburgh seaside
Edinburgh 1670
Monkey 47
Liverpool

Wild Wingletang from Westward Farm on the Isles of Scilly.

Best. Gin. EVER.

And thankfully they deliver - www.westwardfarm.co.uk/store/p5/Wild_Wingletang_Gin_70cl.html

You're welcome

Agreed BarbaraofSeville both the the Waitrose & M&S have no sweeteners and relatively low sugar and only about 60p a bottle!

Hepple Gin
Drumshambo Gunpowder
Hepple Gin
Poetic Licence Old Tom
Hepple Gin
Holy Island
Hepple Gin

Pickering's Gin made in Edinburgh is very nice. For some reason when I visit Edinburgh for the Festival Fringe their venue seems to need visiting a lot!

which just goes to show how all our tastes differ, making threads like this little more than a random list of types of gin.

I agree. I would find it helpful if people could say what it tastes of as well. For example someone described Opihr gin as tasting of curry, which it will do because it contains cardamon. I love cardamon BTW, but not in gin.

I had never come across the expression juniper forward before this thread, hence my stupid question earlier. I thought it was a brand .

Eden mill love gin
Edinburgh gin special valentines edition

With fever tree naturally light tonic

Gordon's white peach
Aldi clementine and spiced plum is DELICIOUS!!
Boe violet

I love cardamon BTW, but not in gin
Strange because I hate cardamom in absolutely everything apart from gin

@Malin52

Gordon's. With Schweppes tonic.

My DH is a gin distiller. I have tried 120 combinations of his gin botanicals. I have tried upwards of 100 gins from around the world. We currently have 43 bottle of gin if the house.

Gordon's is the most balanced and solid G&T gin ever and I come back to it every time.

Schweppes is the perfect mixer. Every other tonic either crowds out the gin or the flavours are contradictory.

I genuinely don't understand why Gordon's gets such a bad rep. I like to try other gins (preferably not flavoured) and every time I think it's nice, but I'd rather go back to Gordon's!

I found some Greenall's that I had forgotten I had, so I did a tasting comparison between that and Gordon's and could barely taste the difference. DH tried and said it was difficult to differentiate as well.

When gin first became trendy a lot of gin bars opened up near me and offered all the Fevertree flavours of tonic water except for plain, and only offered diet Schweppes tonic water for plain (yuck). I think a number of people complained, myself included, and now they also offer plain Fevertree tonic as well.

IMO diet Schweppes just kills the flavour of gin, and has a nasty aftertaste. The lower sugar version of Fevertree tonics are just that, and don't contain any artificial sweeteners.

@SymbollocksInteractionism I agree that Aldi clementine and spiced plum is DELICIOUS!! is the bee's knees.

Can't stand Gordon's. I didn't used to like gin untill 5 years ago and it was because my parents drink Gordon's and the smell put me off. They also use really cheap tonic

I was introduced to hendricks and fever tree tonic and now I'm a gin addict

I genuinely don't understand why Gordon's gets such a bad rep
I think when gin became 'trendy' and all of a sudden there were 3million varieties of small batch gins in your local people started to get snotty about Gordon's as it was seen as a bit old fashioned. Usually by people who had never previously drunk gin and just thought Gordon's was uncool, something their nan would drink.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Gordon's though. Its a great london dry, very refreshing, and while its not my first choice I'd never turn my nose up at one!

Adnams copper house or first rate which is stonger

Bath tub if you like something more floral

I drink all sorts of gins but always come back to Hendricks, it's my all time favourite. The malfy ones are good for flavoured gins.

Thank you @XiCi. I sometimes feel a bit of a pleb on gin threads because I like Gordon's. I agree that there is a lot of snobbery about gin, as there is about other food and drink. However, I accept that many people actually prefer other brands.

Interestingly, there was a TV programme on about two years ago hosted by Michel Roux Junior where they did blind tatstings of various well known food and drinks. It was called Tried and Tasted. The winner in the gin tastings was Gordon's.

I also, controversially, think that people who only like strongly flavoured gins don't really like gin in its original form.

@Peccary

This is an excellent thread, I think dry January may have to be terminated with a payday treat....

It's reminded me that I love Nordes gin (Spain has some good gins and the bottle is really stylish )
Also Manchester Wild Spirit

Yes!! Norde is a firm favourite here, I could drink it neat it’s so delicious

Definitely ginfordinner. At its basic level gin is a juniper infused white spirit and that it what most gin lovers like the taste of. Hence the talk of juniper forward gins which Gordon's is. To be called gin it has to have juniper in, or basically its just vodka, but alot of gins have so many other botanicals or fruits in that they just don't really taste like traditional gins any more. Some of the fruit flavours are just sickly sweet.
It wasn't that long ago that the only choice in bars was Gordon's or a rocket fuel House gin!