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Gin to vermouth is 4:1
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Ah, therin lies the rub, the recipes I saw called for equal parts gin and vermouth. I don’t even do that for a Manhattan, what was I thinking? I may give it another go. I also didn’t have Luxardo liqueur, I used tipsy cherry juice which I think is probably lighter and maybe a good thing.
Has any HO tried this gin? Popped up in our liquor store, where the gin selection keeps shrinking to make way for stupid vodka.
I have not had it, but The Gin Is In does not hand out a lot of five star ratings. Light on juniper.
Thanks! I’ll send the pic to my bar manager and see if she has it 
I bought a new gin a month ago, on sale, Bloom jasmin and rose.
Pink coloured - it’s high summer here in Europe! So, this was a conondrum. I didn’t really like this gin. I really wanted to like it because I love rose (eg the Monin syrup) but this tasted very artificial! There wasn’t really a juniper forward flavour, to me at least, and it didn’t have the natural sweetness of say the Monin. My initial thoughts: a cheapish gin with added artificial colouring and flavours,
So, what was the conondrum you may ask?
I finished the bottle in less than two weeks!
Getting frustrated by this wrong purchase, I started adding it to whatever drink I was having, in the hope of finishing it up and forgetting my mistake. So, I would pour a glass of seltzer water on the rocks with a twist, and add just a splash of this gin, and so on it went! Did that a few times, also a G&T a few times, and before I knew it the bottle was finished…
Now wondering if I should just get a new bottle! It was 22 euro, so no biggie.
https://theginisin.com/gin-reviews/bloom-jasmine-and-rose-gin/
We are still in a gin hausse here… A lot of local distillers are jumping on the gin bandwagon and they are creating their own gin. Restaurants here stock up on lots of different gins, to make money out of G&Ts. And what better way to entice customers by offering local gins, like they do with craft beer.
I do like vodka though, about to order a bottle of Belvedere. I like it on the rocks mixed 50/50 up until 70/30 (70 vodka) with coca cola or seltzer water.
Here, my local shop has kept their amount of vodka the same (ie minimal) but has reduced their amount of Italian amari to make room for gins… 
Shoulda dumped the stupid vodka instead 
I had a similar situation with Few Breakfast Gin. It was heavy on bergamot and a bit sweet. It made a martini I did not want to finish. It was just fine in an Army and Navy. So that was my gin drink until it was gone. In the summer a good Army and Navy is a delight.
In 2015 my wife and I were in Poland. After dinner each evening I tried another vodka. Before we flew home, I bought a bottle of Belvedere at the airport. We still have 50% of it.
Yeah, the local is worth trying, but I have absolutely ZERO interest in any mass-produced vodka. Too many gins to try before I die
My BFF brought a bottle of this gin. We really liked it in a dry AF martini.
Aw, gee. Does that mean I have to drink a martini AGAIN today?
Dang 
This is probably not available in the US, but we picked up a very interesting Italian gin yesterday. Very herbal & complex, with hints of grapefruit.
Worked fantastically well in a martini.
I’m getting back into gin these days because some warm weather reminded me to have a gin and tonic. I’ve been making my own tonic water from this kit, mentioned in another topic:
sweetened with a little sucralose since I like to avoid sugar. At first I got a bottle of Trader Joe’s “Rear Admiral Joseph” London Dry gin. It’s fine in the G&T, but I didn’t like the martini it made (with Noilly Pratt vermouth). Today I picked up a bottle of the gin of my youth, Tanqueray original, currently on sale at Costco for $22/1.75l.
I’m still getting updates on this thread.
I’m probably one of the heaviest gin drinkers out there, at least that’s my presumption.
I drink 3 full bottles of gin a week.
The more gins I’ve tried the more boring I have found my taste in gin to be.
I dislike the really herbal and also fruity gins. I prefer the original London Dry Gin and not much else.
My two favourite gins are Caorunn and The Botanist - both made in Scotland.
But I actually think the standard Tanqueray is almost as good as these two.
For tonic my preference is Fever Tree Gold and Schweppes - both to me taste very close to eachother, so I tend to buy the cheaper Schweppes.
Any other heavy gin drinkers out there ?
Uh, no. I always considered myself quite a gin fiend, but that’s a stunning amount even to me.
That said, one bottle of gin probz provides about 7-8 martinis, which is my gin cocktail of choice 9 outta 10 times. I find most tonics to be too sweet & prefer to taste the gin.
I already mentioned my favorites way, way upthread, but have recently found that a Tanqueray 10 martini is a lovely thing.
If you use them for martinis (normally 2.5 oz gin) you are drinking 30 martinis a week (or more than 4 / day) ?
I have a martini or two about three nights a week. I agree with your take on disliking the overly fruity or herbal ones and much preferring to have a traditional London dry. I like Botanist and Caorunn, too, and have enjoyed a very few other high priced gins like St. George Botanivore, Isle of Harris, Ford’s, and even Citadelle, but I have settled on Bombay, the old red cap. I like St. George Terroir, especially at the holidays, but it is so vastly different that it seems like its own category. Original Bombay tics the right boxes and is priced pretty reasonably. Bombay Sapphire is squarely in the “I do not like it” column. When ordering a Bombay martini out at a restaurant or bar, I need to be pretty darned specific if I get as far as specifying a gin. More often than not I write off the idea of a martini when they say they do not have either Dolin dry or, if I am up to it, Boissiere or Vya. Boissiere and Vya are more assertive than the Dolin, but their herbals just click for me, especially with Boodles.
