{"id":95,"date":"2011-06-19T01:53:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T08:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2011-06-19T01:53:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T08:53:43","slug":"gin-and-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/95","title":{"rendered":"Gin and Juice"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really dislike gin. Every time I had it in the past, it reminded me of pine needles. It’s what I imagine Pine-Sol<\/a> would taste like, were I to drink it. Hopefully, I’ll never have to drink Pine-Sol. Unless I’m in some kind of weird torture situation.<\/p>\n

Anyway, since gin is in so many cocktails, and it seems like such a classy thing to drink, I thought I’d give it another shot and try some gin-based cocktails.<\/p>\n

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I was told that I would like Bombay Sapphire more than other gins, because of the fruitier flavors. Sadly, the gin itself is not actually sapphire-colored, it’s only the bottle. If only Bombay Sapphire turned drinks blue…<\/p>\n

First, I tried a gin gimlet, since I liked the vodka gimlet<\/a> I made before.<\/p>\n

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Gin Gimlet<\/strong>
\n2 oz gin
\n1 oz lime juice
\n0.5 oz simple syrup
\nlime slice<\/p>\n

It’s the same exact recipe as the vodka gimlet, just with gin in place of the vodka. I could still taste the gin through all that lime juice and simple syrup, though it wasn’t as pine-needly as I would have expected. It actually had kind of a nice clean taste, though I wasn’t really fond of the Pine-Sol aftertaste. Definitely prefer the vodka gimlet.<\/p>\n

The gin and tonic is a classic, so of course I had to try one of those.<\/p>\n

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Gin and Tonic<\/strong>
\n2 oz gin
\n5 oz tonic water
\nlime slice<\/p>\n

I went for the 2:5 ratio of gin to tonic water to minimize the gin flavor. Apparently, some people do 1:2, or even 1:1, which seems ridiculous. It’s pretty piney, although the tonic water’s bitterness helps somewhat. I put a small squeeze of lime juice in too, but the pine needle taste still comes through. I thought it was pleasantly sweet with the sweetened tonic water, though (I used Schweppes).<\/p>\n

The White Lady was apparently invented sometime in the early 1900s.<\/p>\n

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White Lady<\/strong>
\n2 oz gin
\n1 oz Cointreau
\n1 oz lemon juice
\nlemon slice<\/p>\n

Basically a sidecar, but with gin instead of brandy. Really strong drink, but with all that lemon juice, I actually couldn’t really taste the gin. But all I got was sourness, there really wasn’t any sweetness. I’d probably use triple sec next time for more sweetness.<\/p>\n

All in all, the gin cocktails weren’t nearly as bad I as expected, probably because I covered up the gin with a lot of acidic lemon or lime juice. I think a lot of gin cocktails are like that, though. Perhaps the citrus goes well with the pine needle flavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really dislike gin. Every time I had it in the past, it reminded me of pine needles. It’s what I imagine Pine-Sol would taste like, were I to drink it. Hopefully, I’ll never have to drink Pine-Sol. Unless I’m … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[174,24,162,28,164,172,173],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixology","tag-bombay-sapphire","tag-cocktails","tag-cointreau","tag-gimlet","tag-gin","tag-gin-and-tonic","tag-white-lady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}