Your favorite Gin-based cocktails ...

[Wingman]

they hatin'.

[Bur]

Gin
(Ice)
(Something)

[PFrank]

Indeed.

[GSG]

How have I not replied to this yet? The Crystalolly of course! 1/2 Gin, 1/2 Cider. Otherwise, G&T.

Excellent, I was about to say that. High time our baby was revived.

[Perradox]

Well it used to be a tall glass of 50/50 gin and a wonderful bottled freshly squeezed Spanish lemonade.
Then the &/(&%&%¤&%¤&%¤% scumsuckers took my lemonade away. It mixed wonderfully with just about anything you could think of.
I've tried making my own, still not the same.

[Zippy]

Dirty Martinis and Gin and Tonic are great but my favorite is the Horsethief:

once and a half Gin (Saffire)

an once Vermouth

a third of an ounce Absinthe

On the rox, shaken, not stirred.

[Bluto]

claridge - gin dry vermouth cointreau apricot brandy
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I'll be making one of those tomorrow. Thanks for the idea!

[Jiggers McCoy]

Any of you fine drunks had any of the Holland Gin / "Genever"? Apparently it's the precursor to the modern London Dry. Bols recently resurrected the style and you can find it in your bigger candy stores. Drunkard ne plus ultra David Wondrich says that you need this kind of "gin" to really recreate the old-school, 19th-Century-style cocktails.

I had a few shots when I visited the Bols factory in Amsterdam. It's a lot funkier than London Dry, seems to have almost a "moonshine-y" edge to it. Much grainier than you'd expect after years of London Dry (which, let's be honest, is closer to flavored vodka than we might like to admit). However, not altogether unpleasant and a bottle makes a nice conversation piece.

Old-Fashioned Gin Cocktail
1/2 tsp sugar
Splash water/seltzer
2 dashes bitters (Angostura to be authentic, but feel free to experiment)
2-3 oz Holland Gin / Genever
Ice

Combine ingredients in an old fashioned glass, stir and serve with stirring rod (in case sugar precipitates out and needs to be whipped back into solution). Needs no garnish but a lemon twist makes it a bit sexier.

[Palinka (RIP)]

Try Plymouth gin, instead of the usual London gin. You can order it here. It's good.

[Mr. Viking]

Any of you fine drunks had any of the Holland Gin / "Genever"? Apparently it's the precursor to the modern London Dry. Bols recently resurrected the style and you can find it in your bigger candy stores. Drunkard ne plus ultra David Wondrich says that you need this kind of "gin" to really recreate the old-school, 19th-Century-style cocktails.

I had a few shots when I visited the Bols factory in Amsterdam. It's a lot funkier than London Dry, seems to have almost a "moonshine-y" edge to it. Much grainier than you'd expect after years of London Dry (which, let's be honest, is closer to flavored vodka than we might like to admit). However, not altogether unpleasant and a bottle makes a nice conversation piece.

Old-Fashioned Gin Cocktail
1/2 tsp sugar
Splash water/seltzer
2 dashes bitters (Angostura to be authentic, but feel free to experiment)
2-3 oz Holland Gin / Genever
Ice

Combine ingredients in an old fashioned glass, stir and serve with stirring rod (in case sugar precipitates out and needs to be whipped back into solution). Needs no garnish but a lemon twist makes it a bit sexier.

De Kuyper make an excellent old style gin, but it is hard to find. It's distilled in pot still rather than column stills, which is why it has a grainy flavour

[Modern Drunkard]

The Hemingway Code Hero

Or the Hemingway, for short. The protag in Papa's Islands in the Stream drank them while was hunting Nazi subs off the coasts of Cuba.

3oz gin
1.5 oz tonic
2 splashes of Angostura bitters
Half a lime

At any given time roughly one third of the dive bartenders in Denver know this excellent cocktail. It would be higher but they keep dying.

[Palinka (RIP)]

The Hemingway Code Hero...

Also known as, "Pink Gin" or "Navy Gin".
At least, in our neck of the woods.

[Jiggers McCoy]

I thought a Pink Gin was just gin and bitters. And no ice, stiffen that upper lip!

[Mr. Viking]

mmm, tastes like gin, just made better

[slipperyyoke]

-1 oz Gin
-1 oz Dubonnet (Red)
-Combine with ice in rocks glass
-Repeat