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Is Gin & Tonic the world's best cocktail ?

The world's best cocktail?

  • Gin & Tonic

    Votes: 17 18.9%
  • Old Fashioned

    Votes: 20 22.2%
  • Margarita (any variety)

    Votes: 5 5.6%
  • Dry Martini

    Votes: 2 2.2%
  • Manhattan

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • Long Island Iced Tea

    Votes: 9 10.0%
  • Bloody Mary

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • Daiquiri

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • Negroni

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • Moscow Mule

    Votes: 2 2.2%
  • Tom Collins

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • Whiskey Sour

    Votes: 3 3.3%
  • Sangria

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • Cosmopolitan

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mai Tai

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Caipirinha

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • Mojito

    Votes: 7 7.8%
  • Pina Colada

    Votes: 3 3.3%
  • Jack Daniels & Coke

    Votes: 4 4.4%
  • Other (please specify)

    Votes: 11 12.2%

  • Total voters
    90

West Texas CEO

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I think so. (y)

Cool, refreshing, simple, the lowest calorie alcoholic drink you can have unless mixing your booze with water or no mix at all, magically removes panties and the freakin' stuff even glows purple under black lights...

Now as a Texan, I'm obliged to have a love affair with beer - and trust me, I do. But a nice G&T probably can't be beat...

But anyway, let's take this to a vote. :pie_thinking:
 

Radioskugga

Member
Cuba Libre (Rum & Coke)
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I love Jager bombs and screaming nazis (Jager + Rumpleminze).

Jager is my shit. The only reason so many people hate it is because they're too weak to handle black licorice.
 

GymWolf

Member
I barely drink cocktails, but when i do, is some super gay liquorice mojito or just some simple fruit vodka and gin.

Never tasted a good long island tea but since i love tea, i would probably like it.
 
I barely drink cocktails, but when i do, is some super gay liquorice mojito or just some simple fruit vodka and gin.

Never tasted a good long island tea but since i love tea, i would probably like it.

you wouldn't like the long island ice tea because you like tea (it's not tea) but because you'd be completely wrecked after a couple of jugs
 

GymWolf

Member
you wouldn't like the long island ice tea because you like tea (it's not tea) but because you'd be completely wrecked after a couple of jugs
I don't drink much alcohol but i have an unusually gigantic tolerance for it, it's pretty funny when i have to jug 4-5 drink to have the same effect that my friends have with one...

That's why i usually just smoke ganja instead. (Although i developed a gigantic tolerance for that as well)
 
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Nobody_Important

“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Never liked gin and tonic myself.


But what do I know. I just pour my Jack directly into the coke can like an animal.
 

GymWolf

Member
Thats my glass :messenger_tears_of_joy:

Love that glass!
Well now you can call it with his proper name.

I had no idea that it was used outside of italy\europe.

There is an entire line, from the small shot glass to the gigantic mixing glass for barmans.
 
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Dr.Morris79

Gold Member
Well now you can call it with his proper name.

I had no idea that it was used outside of italy\europe.
It'll still be known as my glass :messenger_tears_of_joy:

Well it's in my UK cupboard, where it came from? Hell that was a few bottles ago, no idea :messenger_tears_of_joy:

I think the missus bought it for christmas on year (with a tiny bottle of whisky.. pffft.)
 

Raven117

Member
Actually, no, the answer is a Negroni.
Its perfect for absolutely every occasion. Before a meal, after a meal. In dead summer, in dead winter. At a high class party and a tailgate.

You can cite an Old Fashioned, but it doesn't have near the range a Negroni has.

 

Fbh

Member
Peruvian Pisco Sour:
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Pisco (peruvian/chilean type of brandy), lime juice, angostura bitter, sugar (or syrup), eggwhite, salmonella, and lots of ice.
Machu Picchu is nice and all, but it's the pisco sour that stays with you.


Gin & Tonic is still nice though
 
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Raven117

Member
Peruvian Pisco Sour:
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Pisco (peruvian/chilean type of brandy), lime juice, angostura bitter, sugar (or syrup), eggwhite, salmonella, and lots of ice.
Machu Picchu is nice and all, but it's the pisco sour that stays with you.


Gin & Tonics is still nice though
Also a great drink.

And who the hell is picking a Long Island Iced Tea, show yourself immediately.
 
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FunkMiller

Member
Vier's dead right about a good gin and tonic. Hendrick's is my chosen brand, though both Bombay Sapphire or Tanqueray are fine too.

Also Edinburgh gin are good for their flavours. Especially rhubarb and ginger. Also the apple and spice. And strawberry and peppercorn.

Need a decent tonic though. Fever Tree all the way.




...shit, I drink a lot of gin.

Also anything that involves adding coffee and alcohol together. Like, ANYTHING.
 
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Davey Cakes

Member
Gin and Tonic is an easy bet. It’s balanced.

I do love a good whiskey sour or Long Island tea. Moscow Mules are excellent and I’m a sucker for margaritas even though I’m not huge into tequila. Gimlets are up there.

I voted whiskey sour but anything with lemon/lime or sour mix is my jam.
 
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Old Fashioned with Rye instead of Bourbon on a single rock. Avoid getting cherries or crushed ice with it. Added flavor liquors aren't bad but aren't really part of the traditional take on the cocktail though I've had some great versions from places that know what they're doing.
 

jdforge

Banned
Vier's dead right about a good gin and tonic. Hendrick's is my chosen brand, though both Bombay Sapphire or Tanqueray are fine too.

Also Edinburgh gin are good for their flavours. Especially rhubarb and ginger. Also the apple and spice. And strawberry and peppercorn.

Need a decent tonic though. Fever Tree all the way.




...shit, I drink a lot of gin.

Also anything that involves adding coffee and alcohol together. Like, ANYTHING.

Have you tried Shortcross?
 
Don't order frozen drinks. Most of them are underpoured because bartenders hate making them. Usually cost more too, a frozen house marg at my bar is $7.50, on the rocks it's $5.
 

Raven117

Member
Don't order frozen drinks. Most of them are underpoured because bartenders hate making them. Usually cost more too, a frozen house marg at my bar is $7.50, on the rocks it's $5.
Frozen drinks are only marginally appropriate if you are on a beach...otherwise....nah.
 

Allforce

Member
I never know how to order a proper mixed drink at a bar so I basically just drink beer. If I order an Old Fashioned I gotta specify what bourbon I want or just let the bartender go at it?

I'd order 90% of these drinks if I wasn't an idiot and knew how to act like I know what I'm talking about...
 
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