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Both already mentioned, Poetic License and Durham are both good gins. Don't need to look any furthet
Rick O Shea said:
Harris gin is decent. Smart bottle too - empty ones go for a tenner on Ebay.
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It is a very nice bottle, but also very clever marketing. They have either 8 or 13? slightly different labels to collect
 
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glen said:
Both already mentioned, Poetic License and Durham are both good gins. Don't need to look any furthet

It is a very nice bottle, but also very clever marketing. They have either 8 or 13? slightly different labels to collect
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We were out with friends a few weeks ago and tried a selection of nice craft gins.

They were so nice I have no recollection of their names. :)

I'm sure one was House of Elrick (made quite close to where I work just north of Aberdeen).
 
Longy said:
Remember 10 years ago when nobody drank gin. It’ll not be the “in thing” anymore & people will go onto something else instead. Rum bars are the next big thing.
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Whisky will make a renaissance. A lot of these gin places are doing gin to provide an income whilst they age malt whisky, as gin can be made in days compared to fine aged malt.
 
MackemBob said:
Whisky will make a renaissance. A lot of these gin places are doing gin to provide an income whilst they age malt whisky, as gin can be made in days compared to fine aged malt.
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Never understood how the economics of whisky work. You spend a fortune setting it up for a return in 5 years (with no guarantee it will be good). That makes less business sense than football.



Which makes me wonder how all of a sudden all these distilleries are producing so many variations. Its like all at once, years ago they all had the same "lightbulb moment" and started using Sherry casks or Madeira Casks.

There was basically one Grants Whisky for years. And one Highland Park, and one Glenfiddich. Then of a sudden, within months they had all been distilling using these specialist casks. Did they all have the same idea at the same time and keep it secret?

Or is it marketing crap?
 
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Redandwhitedust said:
Ok I know nothing about Gin or whats good and not these days.

Got to buy a present for a friend, looking at spending £35 -45 a bottle.

To give you an idea, he lives in Scotland and will be buying me a decent Malt Whisky in return at around that price.

Not interested in fancy flavoured stuff. Just looking for a decent gin-flavoured Gin that (ideally) is obscure or local.

Is the Durham Gin stuff any good?
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Another vote here for poetic license. Their old Tom is lovely. Having said that, the best old Tom I’ve every tried is an Icelandic gin called Himbrini. That’s a nice obscure one for you.
 
Redandwhitedust said:
Never understood how the economics of whisky work. You spend a fortune setting it up for a return in 5 years (with no guarantee it will be good). That makes less business sense than football.



Which makes me wonder how all of a sudden all these distilleries are producing so many variations. Its like all at once, years ago they all had the same "lightbulb moment" and started using Sherry casks or Madeira Casks.

There was basically one Grants Whisky for years. And one Highland Park, and one Glenfiddich. Then of a sudden, within months they had all been distilling using these specialist casks. Did they all have the same idea at the same time and keep it secret?

Or is it marketing crap?
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The cask thing has been going on for years and years. I worked for a distiller who left a lot of the decisions to individual distillery managers on what different things they could do. As long as the volumes of mainline stuff was being produced, small batches of slightly different recipes and methods were given free rein.
 
MackemBob said:
The cask thing has been going on for years and years. I worked for a distiller who left a lot of the decisions to individual distillery managers on what different things they could do. As long as the volumes of mainline stuff was being produced, small batches of slightly different recipes and methods were given free rein.
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That may be so. But did all the distillers all at once start doing the different casks? Because they all seem to have hit the shelves within months of each other

A few years ago you got one whisky from one distillery. Apart from the age, there was no variety.

Now within a few months of each other, Talisker suddenly have a load of varieties, as does Glenfiddich as does Singleton and as does every major distiller. They cant all of had this brainwave for variety at the same time surely?
 
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