Loungers must choose: Martini--Gin or Vodka?

[libnnc]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. And then there's the old drinking song.....

Oh it's gin gin gin that makes you want to sin.....!

:rofl:

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. Vodka...

gin tastes awful...it's the one liquor I won't drink

[Xipe Totec]

3. Vodka, because, If I wanted to taste pine sap,

I'd drink retsina instead.

[Mutley]

4. Vodka makes me ill and gin tastes like crap.

No martinis for mutley. :D

[Xipe Totec]

6. Your obliged to post an alternative, then

:beer:

[Mutley]

7. Rum and coke.

My brother in law made me drink a rum and Dr. Pepper a few weeks ago. It was actually pretty good. :9

[Xipe Totec]

8. My first intro to liquor was Brandy and Coke

Rum and coke needs a twist of lemon, then you have a Cuba Libre.

I'm afraid I'm not on speaking terms with Dr. Pepper. x(

[Mutley]

9. I've only ever had Brandy straight up.

What's your problem with Dr. Pepper? :P

[Xipe Totec]

10. It tasted like carbonated prune juice to me.

Actually, more like the juice from inside the prune pit, only with fizz.

I gotta be honest with you.

:hide:

[Mutley]

11. Heretic!

:spank:

[Xipe Totec]

14. Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa!

:blush:

And yet... no, it still tastes.... :puke: .... a little off to me....

Cheap brandy (Presidente) HAS to be mixed, otherwise it's undrinkable.

Courvoisier, on the other hand, has to be treated with respect.

[Mutley]

15. Some of us can only manage somewhere *between*

cheap and Courvoisier. :D

[Broken_Hero]

5. vodka, hands down, or hands up!...:) n/t

[bedpanartist]

12. Tangueray Martini, dry and FILTHY AS HELL!

I like to chop up olives and bleu cheese chunks and let them sit in the bottom of my martinis. I must be wary of these drinks though.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

13. Vodka, can't abide gin

but then, I don't much like martinis. Having a V&T right now.

[Paladin]

16. Bombay Sapphire Gin, Straight-Up

Not dry, with a couple of enormous blue cheese-stuffed olives. And if the bartender really knows what the hell he's doing and has a good touch, very slightly dirty (too much olive juice renders it unpleasantly salty).

[Shakespeare]

17. There's a martini, and then there's a vodka "martini"

Real martinis = gin.

[xchrom]

18. ding! ding! ding!

winner!

i love a good martini -- but a good martini takes vermouth -- you have to like vermouth.

and i love vermouth as well.

good vodka -- should be ice cold served straight up.

[Xipe Totec]

19. Well, sure!

Vodka, neat and dead cold would be my choice too.

With some dense Russian bread on the side, sprats, pickled tomatoes, and some steaming hot potatoes and a small pile of salt.

:9

[Paladin]

20. Right You Are

n/t

[JVS]

21. If it's not Gin, it's not a martini, it's an abomination

[RedG1]

22. Vodka (my vote).....versus gin.....

As a long-time fan of Absolout vodka, I was pleased to see a lab test done several years ago by technicians at my work; they went to a large nearby liquor depot and purchased one "fifth" sized bottled of every 80 and 100 proof bottle of every brand of vodka for sale ...somewhere around 40 bottles...("proof" being exactly twice the percentage of alcohol in the solution...pure alcohol is "200 proof"...a solution that is 43% alcohol would be 86 proof, 100 proof = 50% alcohol). The lab test was for purity of vodka and a laser beam was passed thru each bottle...both the Absolut 80 and 100 proofs were the only brands that were entirely pure, free of any particulates.

Basic gin production in similar to vodka up to a point. The continuous still method is the most cost-effective way of distilling basic grain alcohol, but the spirit that is produced is flavour and odor-free.

Gin is injected (infused) with its characteristic taste, when producers redistill it, usually in a old-fashioned pot still. It is during this distillation that various botanicals are added, in varying proportions, and these can include angelica, caraway, cardamom, cinnamon, fennel, juniper, lemon zest, etc.

Remember vermouth controls the success of the martini. The less the amount of vermouth, the drier the martini. Try an eyedropper, an atomizer or mister, or pouring the vermouth over the ice and draining it off, before mixing the drink.

[RevolutionaryActs]

23. Where's Rabrrrrr?

:7