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1.21 Gigawatts wrote: I've tried that technique with Whiskey
Well, there's your problem. Try it with whisky instead. 
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Fair point.
Although Wikipedia [^] says:
"Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition:
'In modern trade usage, Scotch whisky and Irish whiskey are thus distinguished in spelling; whisky is the usual spelling in Britain and whiskey that in the U.S.' "
So it appears I've gone American.
Yeehaa!
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Not quite, whisky or whiskey was first brewed on Ireland... By some monks, whisky litterally means Holy water.
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I thought it was the "water of life" not "holy water"
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Oooops, that sounds more right. 
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That's a girls drink
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote: Southern Comfort is a Bourbon
This is blasphemy on the highest level...
To say that Southern Comfort is bourbon is like saying that your excrement after eating a lot of chocolate is, in fact, Swiss chocolate. It might look the same (and perhaps somehow share a bit of flavor), but one should never be mistaken for the other.
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Did you drink it neat?
When Nagy and I were young wizards at Hogwarts we took Potions for our NEWTS exams and both passed as we got the exact mix of Gin and Tonic right.
You see Gin is horrible, and Tonic is vile, but mixed correctly, Magic happens and there is the worlds most refreshing drink that also allows you to speak with confidence, and protects you from Dragons and Ogres and can allow for deafness to all criticism.
It is a truly powerful potion and should not be imbibed by anyone less than Master Wizards, otherwise odd things happen.
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And how the young apprentice will become a Master Wizard if he or she doesn't practise with some potions and magics ?
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Although I enjoyed the explaination considerably I'm with Meh on this one, Gin = urgh!
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Dalek Dave wrote: You see Gin is horrible, and Tonic is vile, but mixed correctly, Magic happens and there is the worlds most refreshing drink that also allows you to speak with confidence, and protects you from Dragons and Ogres and can allow for deafness to all criticism.
I think this goes for a lot of 'mixed' drinks.
Caipirinha for instance, are delightful if done correctly, rancid if done badly.
Mmmmmmmm....caipirinha........*drool*
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Yep. +1 on how you drink your gin.
Neat it's not good for anything, even degreasing engines.
It's definitely a spirit that needs to be mixed.
OF the gins, Hendricks is an easy favorite for me.
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You must have been in Ravenclaw. Over in Gryffindor we took it with orange juice or lemonade - yum!
Drinking by itself? Are you crazy?
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Finnish Gin?
Was that a bottle of vodka and a juniper berry?
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It was gin, and as usual the Finns didn't bother adding water to the product ...
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Usually Finns don't bother adding taste to the product.
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True - I remember a couple of Finns who just threw vodka on the sauna until they fainted ...
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You didn't warn them about the slice of lemon - oh woe, woe and thrice woe on the imbiber of the lemonless G&*T!
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That is almost so true.
I enjoy a Whiskey with a little ice.
After seeing all the Gin fanaticism on CP, I purchased a bottle of Gordon's and a bottle of Beefeater.
Poured out a neat slug over a little ice and was somewhat dismayed and a little disappointed with the experience.
I needed an expert opinion.
I decided to ask Nagy Vilmos for the best way to drink Gin.
He obliged revealing the secret proportions of Gin with Tonic and ice and a slice of lemon.
"By the bottle old chap, by the bottle!
TBH, a nice G&T is hard to beat. Ice [if you like, I do], a slice [of lemon] and pour over the gin, then add tonic to taste [for me that's about the same quantity as the gin].
Simples."
The next night I mixed the secret potion and drank the refreshing liquor like a king or like Bradman before he went out to bat.
After the second one I looked at the Gordon's Bottle and noticed that it only had a third of it's contents remaining.
I had used my favourite wine glass, which has a 750 ml capacity, to enable the old snoze to sniff the bouquet of a lovely old bold Shiraz or one of your Pinot Grigio.
Nagy had failed to inform me about the importance and danger of the size of the glass.
Elephant it. I had another one because it was so refreshing.
The magical proportions of the two substances with the garnish and solid H2O did work their magic indeed.
I awoke early in the morning on the couch and by some weird Gin magic, I was already dressed for work.
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A lot of spirits have that result when first tried.
The best approach is to add the right amount of tonic or mix it in a Martini. For the Martini experiment with proportions starting at 4 parts gin to 1 part vermouth - this is a Dry Martini. 1:1 is called a "Perfect" or "Girly", 15:1 is a Monty. I like the Churchill, 5 parts gin and nod in the direction of France; though some find this too sweet.
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After you gave me the magic proportions for Gin and Tonic, which I did appreciate, I moved to the Martini.
The Dirty Martini got me going.
(I quoted you in this thread in my response to DD's post on Hogwarts and Gin.)
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You forgot to decorate your Christmas tree with tonic...
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MehGerbil wrote: I tried Gin.
It tastes like a liquefied Christmas tree.
It is shite and only drunks by women down here in Oz. Dark Rum and >50% alcohol and you're on the right track.
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Michael Martin wrote: Dark Rum and >50% alcohol and you're on the right track.
A nice drop of Woods[^], then. ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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