Gin hound

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Fri May 27, 2005 9:13 pm

I discovered some time ago that those alcohol based hand sanitizer gels work wonders for removing india ink from your hands so there's always been a bottle of the stuff on my desk next to the art supplies.

I ran out of my regular brand and got a bottle of generic stuff from the Shopper's Drug Mart. The old stuff only had a faint alcohol smell to it. This new stuff smells exactly like gin.

It's making me jones for a gin and tonic big time.

Badnoodle · Post by **Badnoodle** » Fri May 27, 2005 9:52 pm

I discovered several years ago the effectiveness of Popov vodka ($10/1.5L) on removing poorly executed smut from my kitchen whiteboard.

I threw a party, and someone mistook a sharpie for a dry erase marker, and did a crude caricature of my roommate as Jabba the Hutt. I couldn't leave it up, so I started usind the various fluids at hand to try and get it cleaned up. The Popov worked the best - no wonder it has a warning label on the side about stomach upset.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sat May 28, 2005 7:56 am

a trick to get regular marker off a dry erase board. Get a dry erase marker and scribble over the non-dry erase part. Then erase like normal.

And for my money, Monoplavda is the BEST vodka. $10, and no warning about upset stomach.

mmm damn I want a Tom Collins or a Vodka Sour

Badnoodle · Post by **Badnoodle** » Sat May 28, 2005 11:03 am

I did not buy the accursed Popov, nor would I touch the stuff. (blech!)

Call me a mild vodka snob, but I'll only drink Vox or Grey Goose straight, or mix with Tito's, Stoli, Absolut, or Skyy. Life's too short to drink cheap liquor.

On a totally unrelated note, gin kisses are the best kind of liquor kisses.

Tellner · Post by **Tellner** » Sat May 28, 2005 1:54 pm

You can make Popov drinkable with a Britta filter (google for references). Run the cheap pisswasser through five or six times and it is much better. Christ only knows what's getting filtered out.

RavenxDrake · Post by **RavenxDrake** » Sat May 28, 2005 2:07 pm

Ok... if you have to filter your liquer first, there's no reason to buy it.

Of course, I don't like Vodka at all... but that's just me. I don't see the reason in buying a liquer who's primary selling point is that it dosent' taste like anything... but maybe I'm overcritical for ahving only ever tasted cheep vodka.

Gin, on the other hand, is wonderful... and Martini's (REAL martini's, not that crappy Appletini/Chocolatini nonsense) are something of a personal vice.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sat May 28, 2005 10:18 pm

badnoodle wrote:I did not buy the accursed Popov, nor would I touch the stuff. (blech!)

Call me a mild vodka snob, but I'll only drink Vox or Grey Goose straight, or mix with Tito's, Stoli, Absolut, or Skyy. Life's too short to drink cheap liquor.

In taste tests among Vodka snobs, Monoplavda kicks the ever loving shit out of Vox and Grey Goose. Give it a try sometime, it only looks cheap.

Fire Storm · Post by **Fire Storm** » Sun May 29, 2005 10:40 am

Are you talking about the standard carbon Brita filter or are you talking about the micro-distillery setup?

Badnoodle · Post by **Badnoodle** » Sun May 29, 2005 11:12 am

squidflakes wrote: In taste tests among Vodka snobs, Monoplavda kicks the ever loving shit out of Vox and Grey Goose. Give it a try sometime, it only looks cheap.

Had that once...for me, it went down pretty rough. I'll try it again if I ever come across it at a party, and try and optimize vodka tasting conditions. (Clean glass, cold vodka, sober to only slightly tipsy Badnoodle)

Tellner · Post by **Tellner** » Sun May 29, 2005 1:08 pm

Fire Storm wrote:Are you talking about the standard carbon Brita filter or are you talking about the micro-distillery setup?

The only one I've seen referenced (or used myself) is the regular carbon eight-to-a-box-at-Costco sort.

Major Maxillary · Post by **Major Maxillary** » Sun May 29, 2005 2:25 pm

you know, they sell specialized liquor filters.

just thought you might like to know.

RantinAn · Post by **RantinAn** » Sun May 29, 2005 4:26 pm

meep. you can keeps it... i dont want it. Except for hte gin. Gin rocks.

WhatMeWorry? · Post by **WhatMeWorry?** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:26 pm

I use a filter on all the alchohol I buy. It's really cheap and convenient, it's called choice. 8)

Vodka through my filter is Finlandia, the Finlandia Mango is quite nice, btw, Absolut, most varieties therein, sometimes Grey Goose (if it is not the first drink) and every so often Skyy (usually as a mixer).

Of course, my personal drink of choice was also the drink of choice of Versailles in its heyday: Chambord, preferably chilled. Goes well with fruit, sherbet, ice cream, chocolate, whatever. 8)

Fr0k · Post by **Fr0k** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:50 pm

If i was rolling in cash all i'd ever drink was stoli and bombay sapphire. But as it is, Gordon's vodka (~12.99/1.75L) is really a great value. Mixed you can't really tell the difference between it and some of the harsher more expensive vodkas (skyy, ketel one) and certainly beats smirnoff.

I wish i could bring myself to order a bottle of absinthe, a lot of it out there is supposedly BS (a LOT of web research says the english and czech stuff is mostly crap...) and the good bottles cost over a hundred dollars. It would be interesting to see ghastly make a comic strip after a few shots of it... supposedly that's what van gogh was drinking when he chopped off his ear... the guro tentacle madness possibilities are endless.

Tellner · Post by **Tellner** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:28 pm

A lot of absinthe apologists say that it really isn't that bad, that it's the alcohol that fries your brains, etc etc etc. Most of the people I've heard peddling that are actually selling the stuff.

The simple fact is that thujone is a really nasty neurotoxin. The wormwood plant uses it as a melts-in-your-brains not-in-your-hands bugkiller. Putting it in your complex finely tuned central nervous system doesn't do you any more good than it does the beetles. Less probably since beetles are chock full of nonspecific oxidases that help protect them from the nasty chemicals in their food.

As far as it goes, gin is vile. Sapphire is barely drinkable. And if the worm in the tequila bottle really absorbed the bad-tasting impurities you'd be left with a bottle stuffed with a 750ml agave caterpillar

Schol-R-LEA;2 · Post by **Schol-R-LEA;2** » Mon May 30, 2005 8:55 pm

I'm not much for distilled liquors. I much prefer ale, mead and wine, and would love to get to brew again someday. I won't turn down a good single malt Scotch, and somehow I actually like tequila occassionally. It's just as well; despite my size, I'm actually a lightweight - three drinks will have me on the floor. I had a seriously bad experience with rum once, and can't touch the stuff unless heavily mixed. Gin and vodka leave me cold - why drink something that's suppose to be tasteless? It's the flavors I want, and most liqueurs don't appeal to me.

A good friend of mine makes lesser (undistilled) absinthe, but even a small amount leaves me pale and sweating. I've never had real distilled absinthe, which is probably for the best.

Toawa · Post by **Toawa** » Mon May 30, 2005 9:44 pm

Milk, Water, OJ. (Not all together, obviously.

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The amount of alcoholic beverage I've consumed wouldn't fill half a shot glass... (Much to the disbelief of my coworkers, many of whom dedicate a fair chunk of their checks to it... Although two are in the process of quitting.)

I just don't see the attraction.

Badnoodle · Post by **Badnoodle** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:57 pm

WhatMeWorry? wrote: Of course, my personal drink of choice was also the drink of choice of Versailles in its heyday: Chambord, preferably chilled. Goes well with fruit, sherbet, ice cream, chocolate, whatever. 8)

I /love/ Chambord. Chambord and champagne is about my favorite cocktail.

Mootpoint · Post by **Mootpoint** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:04 pm

Sanitizer does wonders for getting Manic Panic hair dye out of bathtubs, too. Looked like a Bic pen barfed all over my bathtub when I did my hair blue.

That said, I can't handle much hard liquor after getting trashed on rum and Coke while watching the VP debates. I had the worst political crush on John Edwards (plus I wanted to shag him silly) and there were six of him running around after half a bottle of rum. Ended up passing out on my floor before I could play with any of the Edwardses. Not my finest hour.