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Gin

Owned

  • 1911 Beak & Skiff (USA)
  • 6 o'clock
    • Much better in a G&T than a martini.
  • Adnam's Copper House
  • Adnam's First Rate
  • Beefeater
  • Beefeater 24
  • Blackwood's Special (60%)
  • Blackwood's Vintage Dry (40%)
  • Bloom
  • Bluecoat American Dry (47%)
  • Bols 6 Year Old Corenwyn Jenever
  • Bols Genever
  • Bombay Sapphire
  • Bulldog
    • lichi?
  • Burleigh London Dry (40%)
  • Cambridge Distillery
    • Stick Gin
  • Caorunn
  • Dr J's
    • bitter orange rind
  • Duke, The (Germany)
  • Ely Dry
  • Gibson's
    • For the French market
    • Very plain
  • Gordon's
  • Gordon's Crisp Cucumber
  • Greenall's
  • Hampstead London Dry (Lidl, Germany)
  • Hendrick's
  • Heston Blumenthal Earl Grey
  • Jorgensen's (South Africa)
    • Sweet nose
    • Bitter Naartjie zest
    • very peppery
    • Mild waxy juniper
  • Juniper Green Organic
  • Larios
  • Larios 12
  • Macaronesian White
    • vanilla? (nope!)
  • Mare
    • cardamom
    • coriander
  • Martin Miller's
  • Monkey 47
  • Morrison's London Dry
  • M&S London Dry (Langley Distillery)
  • No.3
    • cardamom!
  • No.10
    • Heavy coriander?
  • No.209 (46%)
  • Opihr
    • Cubeb
    • Like a fragrant curry!
  • Pink 47
  • Plymouth
  • Portobello Road
  • Sacred
    • cardamom
  • Saffron Gin
  • Sipsmith
  • Sloane's
  • Spirit of London
  • SW4?
  • Tanqueray
  • Tanqueray Rangpur
  • Tesco Aromatic Gin (Greenall's)
  • Warner Edwards Harrington Dry (44%)
  • Whitley Neill
    • fynbos
  • Williams Chase
    • vodka!
    • apples!
  • Williams Extra Dry
  • Williams Chase Orange
    • Slightly strange with vermouth

Tasted

  • 50 Pounds
  • Bar Hill Honey Gin
  • Brockman's
    • raspberry?
  • Edinburgh
  • Foxdenton 48
    • At 196. Heat, floral?, not much else
  • Geranium
  • G-Vine Floraison
  • G-Vine Nouaison
  • Inverroch Classic
  • Inverroch Verdant
  • Inverroch Amber
  • Junipero
  • Mombasa Club
  • Plymouth Navy Strength
  • The Botanical's Premium Black
  • The Botanist
  • Xoriguer

Missing

  • Dictador Ortodoxy
  • Dictador Treasure
  • London No.1

Notes

  • Whitley Neill's hints of fynbos. Brilliantly chewable G&Ts.
  • Beefeater 24's seville oranges in a Negroni?
  • No.3 in a dry martini with a lime twist
  • Dr J's: offputting in a G&T, but good in a martini
  • Heston: hated it initially. But good as an Earl Grey Martini.
  • Sacred: excellent dry martini with lemon twist. Cardamom like No.3. Smooth.

Stick Gin

Botanicals

  • Juniper
  • Coriander
  • Lemon Zest
  • Rose
  • Thyme
  • Ginger
  • Elderflower

Tasting - Martini

  • As a dry dry martini perhaps too warm and hence too dilute.
  • Very Smooth
  • Coriander

Tasting - G&T

  • Woody juniper
  • On the nose the Rose notes come out strongly
  • Palate lots of lemon with a long finish

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