Boutique / Gift Gin?

Gift for the good lady – she enjoys a glass of Bombay Sapphire to wind down at the weekend, and thought she might appreciate something a little different for Christmas. Any suggestions?

http://www.silentpooldistillers.com/navigation.html

Professor Cornelius Ampleforths Bathtub Gin.

any other gin i’ve tried is by comparison, quite frankly, shit.

Professor Cornelius Ampleforths Bathtub Gin.

I really wanted to hate this as it looks like hipster bollocks however it is actually very lovely.

Professor Cornelius Ampleforths Bathtub Gin.

I’m buying a bottle of that just for the name!

http://www.thebathgincompany.co.uk/shop/%5B/url%5D

god knows what it’s like by itself but they make a nice Nagroni in the bar

So far Brockmans is the best gin i’ve ever sampled. Would like a try of the ‘Professor Cornelius Ampleforths Bathtub Gin’ though!

+1 to wanting to try Professor Cornelius Ampleforths Bathtub Gin

I bought this for my wife in October, its very nice.

I did a fair bit of searching and reading reviews of a lot of boutique gins, most seemed to be an acquired taste, The Botanist got great reviews.

Quite like the look of this

https://www.masterofmalt.com/gin/drinks-by-the-dram/the-ginvent-calendar-gin/

They do a Botanicals one as well

Only £115 for 720ml of largely not very nice gin…

copped a bottle of this for the good lady recently – Scottish gin, in a particularly nice bottle IMO:

http://www.rockrosegin.co.uk/

she loved it 🙂

This is meant to be nice bottle looks good and its made where i go mountain biking

http://www.forestgin.com/%5B/url%5D

My father was fulsome in his praise for this one, which I bought to help numb the pain from his recent knee op:

http://www.foxdentonestate.co.uk/48-dry-london-gin.html

Aye. I bought a bottle for the Mrs and one for a mate. I don’t think the mate will ever see his 🙂

I have gins on tasting all the time, these are the ones which have had good feedback recently:
Mason’s lavender
Opihr spice
Chilgrove
Sipsmith
Thomas dakin

But the bathtub and botanist mentioned above are excellent also

Eden Mill[/url]

The best gin out there (for actually drinking): http://www.bramleyandgage.co.uk/PBSCProduct.asp?ItmID=11869984

There’s a matching tonic, too, so don’t ruin good gin with rubbish tonic.

I’ve a bathtub gin on the go at the moment

It’s very nice, can’t say it’s changed my life or owt though

Williams Chase prior to that – also good

Din’t rate that monkeybollocks stuff though

http://www.firebox.com/product/6970/Unicorn-Tears-Gin-Liqueur

(If you can find some) Jenever might be a nice change for a gin drinker. Its the dutch predecessor of Gin – its a sort of younger, lighter, freshers tasting tipple. There are two kinds – ‘old’ and ‘young’ – but that means old fashioned and new style and refers two distilling techniques rather than ageing. Quite nice to drink neat rather than with mixers

Tends to be sold in quite unusual old fashioned ceramic ‘bottles’ which might be quite a nice gift-y aspect as well

I’ve a bathtub gin on the go at the moment

My brother bought me a bottle of this. Very much like it.

I bought this from amsterdam last month

Really good

I am a big fan of Dodds Gin

https://www.londondistillery.com/shop/dodds-gin

But for something different Ophir is lovely.

http://www.waitrosecellar.com/spirit-type/opihr-oriental-spiced-london-gin?gclid=Cj0KEQiAj8uyBRDawI3XhYqOy4gBEiQAl8BJbasBjfapWUfs3syAKEtR5R-RDfAkFmG5S9i_LL5QQ1MaApfI8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

Ophir is what I bought last year on the Gin thread, it’s rather nice.

PSA alert !

seriously, just found bathtub gin on amazon deals £22

Shirley for your typical STWER it’s got to be Crossbill from Shed of the year?

A chum of mine runs this company…

http://www.huntersgin.com/

hic hic

Cheers Scaredypants. I had a bottle in my cart as a gift for my bil. Your psa just saved me a tenner!
Thank you.

+1 for the Edenmill, tried their Hop gin, mmmmmmm.
Any one that combines hops and gin is good in my book

Shortcross Gin

I learnt about this stuff at the weekend.

Not tasted it, but it’s apparently very good indeed.

https://www.masterofmalt.com/gin/kyro/napue-gin/

Monkey 47..really rather nice.

Here

Get thee to Aldi. Whitley Neil £19.99[/url]

A biking friend has been involved with Bedrock gin, based here in the lakes. Not tried it yet though!

They also do a vodka.

This,

http://www.drinkfinder.co.uk/wicked-wolf-exmoor-gin-42-70cl.html

its made by my friends Pat and Julie, it is exceptional.

It’s gonna be whatever name/label you think the Mrs will like the look of. Nothing else matters.

But for me it’s this…

TheBotanist22 by jimmyg352[/url], on Flickr

Made here…

Islay 2011 003 by jimmyg352[/url], on Flickr

In this still…

015 by jimmyg352[/url], on Flickr

It’s nice when you can relate to something 8)

Conker gin
Thats the spirit!

Chase apple gin. Cant stand the stuff but have it on highest gin drinking authority its pretty good! Only single estate gin in the UK, whatever that means 😉

http://chasedistillery.co.uk/gin/

Plus 1 for forest gin. It’s made by a couple and their daughter, in langley. I bought a bottle for my wife for our anniversary. It’s really good. It’s not cheap at 60 quid a bottle though.

My second favourite would be Martin millers.