Comments on: A note on gin bars

By: C.R.E.A.M.

C.R.E.A.M. — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:13:24 +0000

Gin is my go-to cocktail spirit nowadays. I feel like there are a lot more things you can do with it than you can with a whiskey or bourbon.

If you’re having trouble jumping on the gin bandwagon, go somewhere and ask for a Martinez to get your feet wet. The only places I really trust them to make me a solid Martinez these days are RN74 (seriously), Maven in the Lower Haight, and the place on Polk that is the new koko cocktails, which I can’t remember the name of. Ask for it with Ransom Old Tom and thank me later.

83 Proof on 1st and Mission even has (or did have) a barrel-aged version of a Martinez, but that place sucks any time of the day you go in.

Or, just have two or three Last Words and you can forget you ever had gin in the first place.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:43:23 +0000

Indeed. Two of my many flaws.

By: Pacific Standard Simon

Pacific Standard Simon — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 01:55:08 +0000

So you’re vulnerable to heart attacks, and malaria as well? Good to know…

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 09:36:56 +0000

Hmmm. I haven’t made that particular connection, but it could be because I try to avoid eating aspirin at least as hard as I try to avoid drinking tonic water.

By: Pacific Standard Simon

Pacific Standard Simon — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 06:35:10 +0000

Next you’ll be trying to tell me that tonic tastes like aspirin!

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 09:28:13 +0000

Incorrect.

By: Pacific Standard Simon

Pacific Standard Simon — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 03:55:22 +0000

Null set.

By: Pacific Standard Simon

Pacific Standard Simon — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 03:53:48 +0000

My reply to this in the linked (above) image.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 22:11:00 +0000

I don’t think the American palet is suited to gin, in general.
Historically, the G’n'T was a…how to put this in current terms.. a PrEP, guarding one ostensibly from malaria.
Hence, as a child brought up in England, this precaution, as well as being a mild sedative, was very efficasious as a substitue for mother’s milk, and I did indeed never catch malaria.

A previous comment referenced the Vesper; also known to a few as “The Perfect Russian.” This, to me, is truly the most potent cocktail available. Were one to consume twelve, as did Bond, one has to tip one’s hat to such pefect self control in the face of normally obliterating alcoholic poisoning.

By: Allan Hough

Allan Hough — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:37:45 +0000

Btw right after writing this post I went to Trick Dog and had the two gin drinks on the current menu. As penance I guess. They were okay.

By: Allan Hough

Allan Hough — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:36:22 +0000

Because them's the rules.

By: troll

troll — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:24:16 +0000

Can’t troll a troll, homie.

By: Old Mission Neighbor

Old Mission Neighbor — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:59:21 +0000

Ha!

By: timbo

timbo — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:40:37 +0000

If you hate gin why do you always order gin and tonics on the ferry?

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:30:43 +0000

Now you’re on the trolley!