Silent Pool And Bathtub

[ethandron]

Both are gins, both are extremely delicious and quite different from each other and any other gin.
Keep them for your own consumption because if you offer a taste to a gin loving friend you'll be left with a thimble full..if you're lucky.
Anyone tried them or have any other interesting and unusual gins to recommend?

[shoota]

I buy the cheapest gin I can find and steep sloes in it....

[EcclesCake]

Artisan gin is the new big thing, loads of bars specialising in gin and gin based cocktails are popping up all over the place.

I'll try any gin that doesn't taste like distilled cucumber.

I've heard that Liverpool gIn is particularly flavoursome.

[ethandron]

I'm going to do that this Autumn Shoota. Was going to pick some wild sloes last autumn but events overtook me and I didn't manage it.

[EcclesCake]

Damsons are good too!

[ethandron]

Sorry Eccles, didn't mean to ignore you..
Yes, Liverpool gin is very nice, hard to come by but worth hunting some down. It's another which disappears very quickly once it's opened, I have a very small dribble of it left.

[Islay]

Not tried them but currently drinking Rock Rose which is from the very north of Scotland.

[shoota]

True Eccles, they are very similar but sloe is just a touch more tart.

[Captain2]

Tried this the other week + some fancy tonic water from the Andes + frozen raspberries, all over ice. Twas delicious. (£52 a bottle though)

http://www.forestgin.com/#The%20Gin

[shoota]

HOWMUCH!!!!????

[EcclesCake]

Shoota, you surprise me fancying something a little more tart......

[shoota]

I like the fruity one too...;-)

[ethandron]

Oh yes Islay, I remember you mentioning that one before. Must try and track some down..
Captain, that's another in my list, sounds lovely.

[dannyk13]

Capt, isn't £52 a bit expensive for tonic water?

[Islay]

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/ProductDisplay?categoryId=&;langId=44&;productId=27520&storeId=10151

This is lovely too

[ethandron]

I have half a bottle of that in the cupboard Islay, whilst it's not unpleasant I didn't find it anything exceptional.

[Islay]

Did you try it with red apple and ice?

[Jackdaw33]

I have always liked the rhyme a wag wrote when a statue of Queen Anne was erected outside St Paul's. It faced away from the church and across the road where a gin palace stood. Queen Anne was noted for her fondness of strong drink, hence:

'Brandy Nan, Brandy Nan,
Left in the lurch.
Face to the gin shop,
And back to the church'.