Many of you have probably already realized that I'm not your typical dude and I'm a bit weird, so I'd like to tell you guys about the five or eight months or so during which I tried every gin available in Buffalo New York.
Gin is a delightful paradox.
Gin tastes like gasoline
Gin is terrible
But it's the weirdest damn thing.
Okay it's a fact, Gin is pretty much awful.
Let's take tanqueray for example, it comes in a delightful $43 1.75 l bottle and it tastes ludicrously bad.
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here's where it gets crazy
Gin tastes awful, but using gin you can make a wide variety of absolutely wonderful cocktails and you don't need to do much either.
The most basic, especially if you have tanqueray, and especially if that tanqueray comes in a $43 1.75 l bottle, then you can make really one of the best gin beverages out there:
Tanq and lime
Get yourself a tumbler glass, and fill that thing with ice.
Next, get a whole lime. Squeeze that thing into the tumbler glass and make sure that the glass is large enough to accommodate the juice of the entire lime and The ice and the gin.
You're looking for a situation where the lime juice covers the bottom 1/5 to 1/4 of the glass and it should be mixed with lime juice as well. The next step is also very simple, grab that handle bottle of tanqueray, and pour it over the ice. Then, stir.
fucking magic
gin tastes awful.
Tanqueray is particularly awful!
Now, take one sip of your iced solution containing 1/5th lime juice to 4/5ths tanqueray.
You are a magician, because you have made something truly wonderful out of something that more or less tastes like gasoline.
Congratulations!
further reading
As my gin hobby has been highlighted, I will share additional and more advanced beverages based on gin. Presently, I'm not drinking any gin because the city is on lockdown and that means the French restaurant where they make Loki's is closed.
I did not actually share details of my quest to try every gin available in Buffalo, but let's say that I did indeed try them all and that two stood out:
- Tanq
- Monkey 47
hahahahahahahahahahaha I didn't think I would read such a strange post of yours. When I say this I mean it in the best way, not that it is a bad publication. I am not particularly a fan of gin, but without a doubt here in Venezuela they drink it on a daily basis. But there are not many imported varieties, usually you find more Vodka, Rum or whiskey.
Well... when were kids, all the moms drank gin and tonic at the beach .... with lots of fresh lemon juice... I just remember it tasted like pine needles... delicious drink on a very hot day.... tasted like lemonade with pine needles.
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Haha, I know you are missing the local gin in Ghana. You need some rocket fuel in your life. Remember that time we ended up sleeping in that slave castle in Senya, when we got there there was a guy with a jerry can full of Apio, and had us join him. We then took a little walk past the shit beach and the mumbling shit man and sat on the roof top and eat the amsterdam candy bar. Somehow that night we ended up out at sea on a fishing boat too. Gonzo tourism with jake. Recently I took a boat ride that way and went past our cliff, good memories, except the giant puff adder skin we found after sitting there for hours.
One of my local face melting recipes:
1 shot Castle Bridge Gin (local Kaspreku company made shwill)
1 shot madingo (local campari)
1 shot lime (remember that lime syrup shit?)
Proceed to let your face melt.
I have tried gin with orange juice but not with lemon. What happened to the monkey liquor?