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·Ya know, I still don’t know if I can appreciate some of the higher end bottles I have.
Campari last night at home.
WRUD (Drinking) Today?
Campari last night at home.
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·Mtek, I know traditional Rob Roy is whiskey, bitters, and vermouth. You have any secret to your version? I only ask because you mentioned that it is a nice cocktail.
Same ingredients, just using a single pot still and heavily sherried whiskey. Most of the time a Rob Roy is made with Scotch. Garnish usually is a cherry or orange peal and I chose a cocktail cherry. I use standard unflavored bitters, Carpano vermouth.
It’s not a game changer, but it is a nice alternative to the trad Scotch Rob Roy.
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Dave london
·Jameson whisky
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··Keeps his worms in a ball instead of a can.Got some Toki and a truly redoiciulious price $28! At least for Japanese juice, but it punches higher.
Pretty good, opens well as it warms in hand quite well. Subtle sweet whisky heavily scotch influences of course.
With a SKX on an amazingly high quality grey/silver NATO that came on my Sinn 903 purchased from a Japanese seller, with amazing wabi sabi from sitting in the sun in the store front.
Hydroponic herb garden in the back for cocktail garnish, and ageing barrel currently doing rye and Montenegro at 50/50 to which black walnut bitters will be added.
Pretty good, opens well as it warms in hand quite well. Subtle sweet whisky heavily scotch influences of course.
With a SKX on an amazingly high quality grey/silver NATO that came on my Sinn 903 purchased from a Japanese seller, with amazing wabi sabi from sitting in the sun in the store front.
Hydroponic herb garden in the back for cocktail garnish, and ageing barrel currently doing rye and Montenegro at 50/50 to which black walnut bitters will be added.
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Foo2rama
··Keeps his worms in a ball instead of a can.
https://www.hitimewine.net/suntory-toki-whisky-750-108478
Smooth for whisky, inline with Japanese base expressions. More flavorful then hibiki, but not as complex. For that price it’s a steal.
Smooth for whisky, inline with Japanese base expressions. More flavorful then hibiki, but not as complex. For that price it’s a steal.
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·As I have posted before my favourite Scotch is Highland Park from Scotland’s most northerly distillery on Orkney. I am currently working my way through a bottle of Dragon Legend.
The eighteen year old pictured here was a Christmas present from my eldest son which I have so far resisted the temptation to sample!
However the main purpose of this post is to highlight my recent discovery of, in my opinion, a great gin also from Orkney, so in a way a matching pair. Although I am probably biased having grown just across the water on the north coast of Caithness.
This will be my second bottle and I have found it very smooth with a good tonic although it does pack a punch at 57% proof!
The eighteen year old pictured here was a Christmas present from my eldest son which I have so far resisted the temptation to sample!
However the main purpose of this post is to highlight my recent discovery of, in my opinion, a great gin also from Orkney, so in a way a matching pair. Although I am probably biased having grown just across the water on the north coast of Caithness.
This will be my second bottle and I have found it very smooth with a good tonic although it does pack a punch at 57% proof!
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·Guys, I want to get a Gin...but there’s a lot of different types (London, Dry, etc) is this just marketing? What is a good mid shelf bottle?
Tonight a RedBreast 21.
Tonight a RedBreast 21.
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Foo2rama
··Keeps his worms in a ball instead of a can.Guys, I want to get a Gin...but there’s a lot of different types (London, Dry, etc) is this just marketing? What is a good mid shelf bottle?
Tonight a RedBreast 21.
Botanist, made by Bruichladdich.
Honestly Bombay Sapphire is pretty good. Far East Bombay is good too. I try to play around with small producers though. Gins pretty hard to mess up, and it’s often thier first product before the aged stuff is ready. It’s normally very affordable and worth trying. I also suggest fever tree tonic and mess with flavors and proportions. Also the added garnish can be anything. Spain is oranges, Scandinavia it’s cucumber, my house is cherries and basil flowers for nose. G and T works well in wine glasses esp stemless so you can enjoy the nose better. My proportions go from 1-1 to 1-3 gin to tonic but is normally around 1-2 depending on effect I’m going for and tonic flavorings vs the Gin.
Dry just means the added flavors are done with non liquid ingredients. Normally botanicals put in bags and steeped in the distillate. But 90% of people will tell you it means not sweet. They are wrong...
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·I find gin to be a really personal taste because they use so many different flavors. Plymouth is my go to everyday gin. I also like Bombay Sapphire and Boodles as other examples of good quality gin that don’t overwhelm you with strong flavors. If you want to try something with a more distinctive flavor, Hendricks is a classic top shelf example of that.
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Foo2rama
··Keeps his worms in a ball instead of a can.I juice my own lemons and store the juice for a few days in swing top bottles. Also 1-1 simple by volume with some vodka to keep it fresh.
You can often find French soda at Sprouts or Whole Foods etc that comes in these bottles which is also a good mixer.
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·The sun is shining, birds are singing and I am declaring summer...…
