Either of the Redbreasts(12yr or 15yr)simply for quality and value.
Gin wise, it would have to be either Hendricks or Crimson. Both copper pot distilled, fresh, clean, but with omly a smidgin of tonic.
Roll on summer
Spicy dark rum. I'm off to the Caribbean in june so can't wait to try some nice rum there.
I'll drink gin if I have too and am partial to whiskey sometimes but I don't usually drink spirits. And don't even ask about my vodka night of shame <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->
&quot;TheBeerNut&quot;:3r7fjf34 wrote: I was hugely disappointed by how much Hendrick's Gin tastes like gin. With cucumber in, it tastes like gin with cucumber in.
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Really?? Cos many people have said different. My mam, who is a gin drinker by nature, says it's a completely different drink. My father, who tasted it on Monday, expressed shock at how it tastes nothing like gin, I can drink it, and like it, and I hate gin. My cousin has also said it's significantly different from normal gin.
It still has juniper in it, so it'll still have that distinctive taste, but I think it's different enough.
And it should never be drunk with lemon or anything, as on expert opinion (my mother's <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) -->) it tastes of nothing special, just a slightly different but otherwise unremarkable gin.
gotta admit im a bit partial to a bourbon neat myself, but once i get started i don't stop. i now reserve this pleasure until later in the night at special occasions.
I tasted Michael Collins single malt at a food fair before Christmas and it was lovely and peaty. It's made by the Cooley distillery in Louth which is the only independant distillery left in the country.