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I'm a fan of classics. Mostly gin and tonic, usually with tanqueray, but lately I've been enjoying Uncle Val's.

I'm not opposed to a martini, but I really prefer the classic G&T.
   
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Somewhere in south-central England.

As it's Friday and sunny...

Hayman's have a new version of their classic London Dry Gin. The new livery is a pale blue and it's on offer in Waitrose for £21 at the moment. Waitrose have stocked them alongside the older version with the dark blue label.

The ABV has been increased slightly to 41.2%. IDK if there is any change to the botanicals, hopefully not because it was a damn good Gin anyway.

Also on offer in Waitre ATM is Plymouth for £20, and Tanqueray Export Strenght 1L bottle for £21. Both of them are good Gins.

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I noticed a strange thing over the past week. Like many cocktail enthusiasts I keep my gin in the freezer. It's a 4-star unit meaning it freezes to about 18-20 degrees below 0 Celsius.

At that temperature water is frozen solid, but alcohol is still a liquid. The Hayman's gin, which is 41% alcohol, should not freeze until about -26 degrees. However, as the amount of liquid left in the bottle gradually dropped, the gin became more viscous and then developed very thin blade-like ice sheets.

Just now, the bottle is down to about 100ml left, and there is a lot more ice in it. It seems as though the gin has become more liable to freezing as the bottle has become emptier. I've just poured a measure and it was hard to get it through the neck of the bottle.

What would cause this affect?

One thing I thought is that every time I pour out a measure with some ice in it, I've taken more water out of the bottle than alcohol. This means the remaining liquid should be more concentrated, and less likely to freeze. Have I got this wrong? Maybe I'm leaving more ice in the bottle than I"m pouring out, so the remaining gin is getting more dilute.

Any thoughts?

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It only becomes more concentrated if you take out more ice than gin.

If you take out more gin, and leave ice in the bottle, you are taking out the alcohol and leaving the water.

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I've never had gin, but I have had jenever, which is the original Dutch gin.
I like it, but I don't think it is popular at all anymore in the Netherlands. I don't think I have ever seen any young people drink it. The only exception is the north of the country (Frisia, Groningen) where a jenever-based drink called Berenburg is still quite popular, even among young people (I have gotten drunk on it more often than I like at student parties at least). It is usually mixed with cola or other soft drinks, but also drunk pure (especially during drinking games). It is basically jenever with some additional spices added to it. Quite nice.

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Gin mare from France with a sprig of rosemary , ice and fever tree tonic, perfect.

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UK

Gin & tonic with few crushed/cut blueberries is tasty and you get to eat the berries at the end

 
   
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I'm a big fan of the simple Gin and Tonic.

For the Gin, I really like Hendricks. However, my favorite is a bit fruitier, called no. 209. It's made in California. I would suggest any Gin lovers give it a shot.

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British Columbia

Bombay and soda with a lot of lime and Caesars of various configurations.

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Physics of gin freezing update!

I left the nearly empty bottle of Hayman's out of the freezer and let it entirely melt, then I put it back.

It has now had about 18 hours in the freezer. The gin is still liquid with no sign of ice crystals.

So what I am wondering now is whether a tiny speck of ice crystal forms a focus for more ice to grow over an extended period of time. The gin starts liquid, and gradually grows some micro crystals, which grow faster as they grow larger.

The way to test this would be put an unopened bottle of gin in the freezer for several weeks.

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I suspect you're getting ice crystals from the moisture in the air which replaces the gin as you pour it.

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Aha! Good thinking.

I will see how icy the last measure in the bottle is when I sit down to relax this evening.

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A big online Gin auction today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45170057

Register here to bid.

https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/cjm-asset?Auctions=current

You've got two hours left until it closes.

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London

Always got to be Plymouth Gin for me. Lived in Plymouth for 3 years but it wasn't after I did a tour of the distillery that I aquired a taste for the stuff. Their sloe gin is even better, it's a shame it's quite hard to come by.

Bit of Plymmy, splash of Fentiman's tonic, slice of lime, done.
   
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Has anyone else here tried Hernö gin? Generally considered one of the world's best gins with a focus on being extremely well balanced. It's good enough to drink straight. I've had their london dry and their old tom. Both make for killer G&T, though you need to have less tonic than you would for Beefeater or such because the flavours are subtler. Somewhere between 1:1 and 1:2 ratios.
   
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I've tried Herno. We sold I think three varieties of it when I was managing the Wine Rack. The standard gin was the best. There was a blackcurrant version, I think, which was pretty horrible.

I'm a fan of Plymouth Gin too. Currently £20 a bottle in Waitrose. Fill your boots.

Price wise, Tanqueray Export Strength 1 litre for £21 is serious competition, though.

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Upstate, New York

Sitting on the shore of Lake George, just polished off a second G&T with sly fox. Noticed this thread up again.

As I suspected, the sly fox makes a very nice gin and tonic. Dangerously good.

   
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There's a brewery near me that teamed up with a local distillery to make a very very nice Gin & Lime Pilsner. Definitely worth a taste.

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 feeder wrote:
There's a brewery near me that teamed up with a local distillery to make a very very nice Gin & Lime Pilsner. Definitely worth a taste


That seems blasphemous and heretical. But potentially quite good.

   
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I've had beer blended with whisky, also porter beer which has been rested in whisky barrels.

I've also tasted a limited edition gin which was aged in whisky barrels and had a distinctive hint of whisky in the flavour.

Lots of these blending ideas go wrong, but the ones that go right are most excellent.

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I don't like Gin, but when I am out with my friends and they are demanding I get the next round of shots, I typically ask for shots of their worst well gin, served warm. Then I sit back and watch.
   
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Just picked up a bottle of "anti-Gin".

Ceder's Wild is distilled using various herbs including South African rooibos and blended with Swedish water to produce a 0% alcohol gin substitute.

The key point for me is that it includes Juniper berries, which are the definitive component of real gin. The already available "Seedlips" misses this crucial ingredient.

Ceder's smells the part. I'll let you have a review in a couple of days.

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0% alcohol... How is that a viable substitute?

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Upstate, New York

 CptJake wrote:
0% alcohol... How is that a viable substitute?


They make non alcoholic beer and it allegedly sells. Someone should be the designated driver, and if they can have a fake G&T with their mates, more the better.

Also useful for mocktails for the underaged.

That said, I’m highly dubious that a 0% Gin would be palatable.

   
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How long can gin stay in high spirits?

A piece from the BBC questioning if we have reached "peak gin".

There are now over 400 craft distilleries in the UK, producing over 500 ginsm. (I suspect well over 500 if you take all the varieties.) The Oxford Artisanal Distillery, for example, produces its TOAD gin, a gin for the Ashmolean Museum, and a gin for the Oxford Botanic Gardens.

When I was running the local off licence two years ago, we had over 100 gins in stock, and knowledge of about 600 different gins from around the world.

So, yeah! Peak gin! I thought then that it could not last for ever.

The prediction is that Rum will be the next boom spirit. I predicted that two years ago, but I was clearly ahead of my time.

That said, Rum isn't just a spirit distilled from sugar can juice or molasses, it's a spirit distilled and matured in the tropics. Rum therefore matures much faster than Scotch. Whisky loses about 2% a year to "the angels", while rum loses up to 25%.

I doubt this rate of maturation can be replicated in the UK without artificial heating.

As well as this, part of the thing about gin is that it doesn't need maturation. If you are a gin distiller wanting to produce rum, better start now to have something ready in a few years time.


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If gin’s peaking, the question is why? Gin isn’t great for drinking neat so I suspect the cause involves a boom in certain cocktails perhaps?

Plus, I thought we were in the whiskey boom still?

   
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Upstate, New York

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If gin’s peaking, the question is why? Gin isn’t great for drinking neat so I suspect the cause involves a boom in certain cocktails perhaps?

Plus, I thought we were in the whiskey boom still?


An extra-dry martini is pretty close to drinking your gin neat.

Once you start splashing mixers and other things into your cocktail, you lose a lot of the subtitles of your base spirit. The two main ways I take my gin (martinis and gin and tonics) there isn’t a huge amount of stuff to muddy the flavors. The tonic dilutes the gin a bit, but doesn’t have an overpowering flavor of it’s own. In that sense, I can appreciate the differences in what I’m having. I can’t see rum filling that niche. It might just be that the only times I see rum in drinks, it’s always paired with something else. Whiskey and Bourbon you can drink straight up and tell what you have. Or mix the crappy stuff with other things to hide it.

Here in upstate New York, I’m in a solid patch of craft breweries, so beer is the local hotness. My family is still in Louisville, Kentucky, so I’m also tied into the bourbon boom. I wasn’t even aware that gin was on the rise. Not to go all hipster, but I’ve been drinking it for years as my spirit of choice.

   
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There is actually a bit of a whisky boom, especially in Scotch "special editions".

These are whiskies which aren't a very aged vintage (e.g. 12 year old) or a blend, but they've often been rested in special casks to give them a different aspect.

I do agree that most gins realistically lose their subtle differences once you mix them 50/25/25 with Campari and red vermouth, for example. The same can be said of whisky. For example, a Boulevardier cocktail is simply a Negroni made with whisky in place of gin. You're going to need a very contrasting choice, say a Ballantine's Finest versus a Lagavulin 16yo, to make much of the difference in the spirit ingredient.

When I ran the off licence, we sold a lot of different gins by room temperature tastings, and the glamour of the different botanicals, the packaging and the whole narrative.

Whisky also has some of that glamour around it.

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