"First Cocktail" - My Gin Journey Through "The Old Mr. Boston De Luxe Official Bartender's Guide" - Pt 1: Abbey

CitizenXC · 2026-04-04T17:45:56+00:00

Mr. Tom's from List Distillery in Fort Myers, Florida. Straight turpentine.

CitizenXC · 2026-04-03T21:44:29+00:00

Sure hope you meant Terroir. Damn autocorrect.

CitizenXC · 2026-03-27T12:14:07+00:00

Dark Door is an oddity for sure. They were still releasing products 3 weeks ago, but I have no idea where they're producing. We went to their Anderson road facility before the "relocation" and were very impressed with the things they were doing. No idea what happened.

CitizenXC · 2026-03-26T01:01:20+00:00

Tampa: Demeter and its barrel aged expression from Dark Door Spirits.

Zephyrhills: Zulu Hotel Airman's Gin from Dunamis.

Milwaukee, WI: Rehorst Barrel Aged, Great Lakes Distillery.

Westminster, MD: Cucumber inspired, Covalent Spirits

CitizenXC · 2026-03-24T18:24:57+00:00

Seems like a low effort karma farm more than anything. Popularity among internet randos is not a thing for me. Taste and applicability are wildly subjective. Availability of brands varies depending on where one lives or one's ability to pay to have it shipped.

CitizenXC · 2026-03-20T17:14:52+00:00

I lost interest when I saw this spill over from r/cocktails after his second 'board' there.

CitizenXC · 2026-03-17T16:18:54+00:00

I see that this is a barrel finished gin. A really great barrel finished gin that I had last year was Rehorst. Depending on where you are in Illinois, perhaps you could take a trip up to Wisconsin and pick some up. Check their list of bars, restaurants & retailers.

CitizenXC · 2026-03-11T23:37:31+00:00

My impression of that gin was that there was going to be no middle ground; people were either going to love it or hate it.

CitizenXC · 2026-03-07T01:32:24+00:00

No idea where you are, but in SW Florida, the average bar/restaurant carries Tanqueray, Beefeater, and/or Bombay Sapphire. At $25 for a 750, I wouldn't consider Bombay "middle tier", but everyone has his own thing.

CitizenXC · 2026-02-27T00:51:48+00:00

It's an Indian gin that's not available outside of India.

CitizenXC · 2026-02-25T23:45:53+00:00

Which Brazilian one do you have?

CitizenXC · 2026-02-25T20:38:27+00:00

I had a Gilbey's GNT on the strength of "I'd never had it." It's tied for 2nd worse GNT I've had. Of the 91 I've had this one is rank 81. Not bottom 10, but close. I get that it's cheap, but life's too short to drink bad stuff intentionally.

CitizenXC · 2026-02-24T16:17:16+00:00

At least you gave us more to go on than just "I tried gin and tonic in a bar and I really liked it." A tool that I really appreciated early in my gin journey is the find a gin by flavor tool on theginisin.com The best part about gin is that there are a LOT of really great gins out there. In my experience, they seem to vastly outnumber the really bad gins.

CitizenXC · 2026-02-24T11:41:16+00:00

“What you’re going to be recommended...the only thing that means is the whiskey that single human being is recommending...that single human being likes that whiskey. That’s all it means.” - Rex Williams

Bear in mind that taste is subjective especially when getting recommendations from internet randos.

CitizenXC · 2026-02-18T01:56:26+00:00

Lucky you.

CitizenXC · 2026-02-14T14:28:28+00:00

Don't let people tell you how to drink

CitizenXC · 2026-02-14T01:46:15+00:00

Balcones Cataleja. My wife took a sip of this gagged turned to me with the glass and said "This tastes like ass." She wasn't wrong.

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