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Was that from Charlie Brown (Peanuts)?

I know that bottle is getting low by now.

Franks price........$0

Botanist Gin & Tonic

Trying to broaden our horizons and bought a bottle of Hendricks earlier today.

I gotta remember your wife's idea of chopping up da cucumber...

for a completely different style of gin, look for Haymans "Old Tom" gin. It's actually sweet.

good with tonic, even just on ice or shaken and strained, but probably not suited for vermouth and definitely no good with olives

right, right. It was Bobbit's wife who chopped up the cuke.

Hendricks with a couple dashes of peach bitters.

Actually opened the bottle on Sunday and had a G&T with diced cucumbers but gonna try just a slice the next time.

just so natural with that cuke essence in the gin

never had, but believe I have seen two or three variations...which was yours?

Silver. Our daughter bought it last week, had only seen the green bottle Silver in the stores and didn't know they had the Reserve until you asked. My wife really likes it and could be her new Go-to.

Yah, I guess we're (...surprisingly...) getting into it. Living in a warm and humid place draws you to chilled drinks and my wife really enjoys it.

Nolet's G&T

from your home?

Sweet potato vodka sounds awesome.

Actually I have been on a vodka voyage the last couple months and have found there are differences.Wheat vodka is smooth with little to no real taste.The potato vodkas have a pretty good bite on them.Rye vodkas,Belvedere and Sobieski,are turning into a favorite........both have a unique flavor I attribute to the rye.For the price Sobieski wins hands down,just not enough difference to justify the extra cost of Belvedere.Svedka,a wheat vodka,has also turned into a fave.......makes nice smooth vodka tonics,only Dripping Springs was this smooth.Grey Goose was most over rated in my opinion.....just nothing special.I'll take the Svedka all day long over GG.Worst pour ever was Taaka.........rubbing alcohol taste and almost instant headache.

Barley's and some of the other different base ingredients are next on the agenda.

I used to keep a bottle of Belvedere in the freezer so I could pour it cold and not have it diluted by melting ice. Also gave it a thickness, improving the mouth feel.

Tonight when out for Mom Day dinner, I had a Belvi martini, EXTRA dry, olives.

when it comes out of the freezer, no vermouth, no ice, sometimes olives.

count me as another who thinks Grey Goose is nothing special.

Svedka is just fine, and a true value. i tend to not use Belvi with tonic, but it doesn't bother me to use the good low cost brands that way.

I hate svedka, I typically go with Lukasowa for cheap. Also Żubrowka is excellent and almost has a slight vanilla finish. It's so smooth you can shoot it at ambient temperature and is only $20 a fifth.

If y'all want something extra special, befriend a Mongolian and get them to bring back Karsoobd. Hands down the best vodka I've ever had. Mongolian vodka is the best. Probably the only alcohol that I can honestly say could potentially give me alcohol poisoning. I drank enough of it to feel lightning bolts criss crossing my brain one night.

There are other brands, Chinggis, Valor, Gereg, which are also very good straight. In my opinion, the best go Mongolian, Polish, Russian, and then the rest is kind of a mixed bag.

Lukasowa, potato vodka, right?

If it's what I'm thinking of, had it many times, very good at a good low price.

Yeah Lukasowa is potato vodka, the majority of good Polish vodka is Potato based. I only do shots, vodka is like water.

In slavic countries there's also Slivovice which is distilled from plums and hruskovice from pears. You gotta be a man to be able to drink that stuff at room temp but it's got a little different vodka-type taste too. Hard to find good quality ones in the states.

Uh, those sound right up my alley. I need to find someone going to Eastern Europe.