Gin

My mouth is now watering for a G&T which was always my drink. Heres my favourite pink one.
Unfortunately I now suffer from acid reflux if I as much as look at one.
Sob sob.

I did read somewhere that you can now get Brussels Sprouts flavoured Gin,so don't despair completely.Any port in a storm.

I was out for dinner last night, a very, very rare occasion.
I had a pre dinner Margarita and an after dinner Espresso Martini.
Both delicious but will never replace a G&T.
(I just wanted you to know I went out really)??

Ha ha Ann, on first seeing the heading, I thought it was your suggestion for a Gransnet " feel good, let's all forget the outside world" day .

I don't even like traditional gin, but might try the fruity ones.

32,000 litres? That’s about the size of my 1st 6oclock glass! ?

Fizzers
I've been 'poorly' many times, but it doesn't stop me.?

Theoddbird
I was the same as you until I hit my 40s and then I got it. I'm so pleased I persisted ?
Strangly enough, I 'got' olives at the same time.

After reading these posts I feel very thirsty. Is the sun over the yard arm yet?

We always say " it is somewhere in the world".

Me too petra. I didn’t know what to drink until I was 40 when I discovered gin and olives at the same time. Hurray! I love it now. We’ve just driven up from Portugal through Spain and France. I always assumed g & t was universal but no, apparently it’s unknown in France! We went out for a meal, asked for my usual, this horrible WARM drink arrived, took one sip and it was peach gin or something, vile! So I asked again for an ordinary gin and tonic, same again but with some ice. Then I asked again and specified no peach. A much smaller glass arrived which tasted like Martini! It was highly perfumed but not in a gin way. I simply couldn’t stomach it. I went to the bar and asked what gin they had. It was something called Gibson’s! I told them it tasted like Martini, much shaking of heads. In the end, I got a rush of blood, banged the glass down and said, it’s vile, I’m not drinking it and I’m not paying for it! The bill duly arrived sans gin and I just drank warmish water.

The next night, a different part of France, I just had a coke but looked at the bar and they had Gibson’s gin as well, nothing else. We went back to our hotel thinking at least we could get a drink now. The lady looked through all the dusty bottles on a high shelf, muttering gin, gin, gin. No luck, no gin at all! The salesperson for Gibsons must have had a ball but can you believe there isn’t a gin culture there at all?

We arrived home Tuesday night and 24 hours later, all this gin on the M6 we’d driven up. Do you think I’m being given a message?

Just checked my cupboard, there is a liter bottle unopened, saved the day.

Gin? meh! Now if it were a lorry load of chocolate - well that would be a complete catastrophe!

Just off to Tesco if Gordons is on offer! Have a dear friend who likes a g&t and knows I do so makes me one if I call in the evening. Warm flat tonic, no ice, no lemon. I drink it and then have a decent one when I get home ?

Did you see the joke about it ? Someone had asked if the truck had been in the Sloe lane-----bum bum.

I'm not a million miles away from the crash site... and several "friends" have suggested I nip up there with buckets !

I've been stockpiling gin since 1968 !!

All round to mine ladies, I have loads! Plain, summer fruit, blood orange, grapefruit, elderflower, blackberry (homemade by a friend) rhubarb and ginger and my new one - passionfruit and coconut. As I only generally have a gin a d tonic on a Sunday I can afford to share!

I was told in a local restaurant not to worry about gin shortages after Brexit. A good deal of it is made in this country and distilleries have increased production to cope, hoping to benefit from a shortage of spirits usually imported from Europe

You’re very welcome to my share anne. I can’t stomach the stuff! My family think me very strange!

Fortunately the UK produces an awful lot of gin. Berries are in season so the roadspill should be replaced quickly, I hope.

I’m not worried, got a bottle of Plymouth and one of Tanquery Sevilla, so we are fine. We seem to have a gin distillery round every corner here. One even claims to have holy water in it!
Shouldn’t think that would ever run out ??!

The tonic prevents night cramps. Not sure what the gin prevents..........
It's purely medicinal.

My Daughter drove past the crash on her way home, she joked that she felt like weeping; what a waste of gin!

This has all just reminded me that I had a wnerful G&T on holiday: Roku gin with rhubarb and ginger cordial, yummy!!

Grammaretto after I had food poisoning once, a doctor told me that that we would all be less likely to get (the milder) gut infections if we had alcohol with every meal, even breakfast

A crying shame.

I hate gin, won`t start worrying unless port goes into short supply.