Bombay Sapphire Gin Recalled Across Canada for Containing Too Much Alcohol

CBC ^ | 5/3 | Pete Evans

[central_va]

Wifebeater is so good. But if you are on a budget Gordon’s will do fine. Actually you either like Gin or you don’t. And if you like gin you are going to drink gin regardless of the label.

[mewzilla]

No way they're getting that back.

(hic)

[mewzilla]

I like gin just fine.

Gin, however, does not like me .

[central_va]

Gin isn’t for everybody.

[Dogbert41]

“I once got completely wasted on vodka.. I was never able to drink it again...”

I’m betting you mixed it with orange juice or some other thing like that. Try it straight in shots, with some nice finger food.

[angry elephant]

Bombay Sapphires is the best gin. Nothing better than Bombay and tonic in summer.

Canucks are really down on alcohol, though. No one who has ever had a DWI can even enter Canada.

Cannabis is good, though, with Canucks.

[BipolarBob]

No, I use a hydrometer made for the purpose.

[BipolarBob]

Hendricks gin.

[Mr. M.J.B.]

Take time to enjoy the juniper berry flavor.
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Sapphire is tops. The botanicals...ahhhh...

Mine’s a G&T (no lime).

In Canada the five star hotels always give me a small bottle of tonic and a small carafe of Sapphire and of course the RIGHT glass at the RIGHT temperature.

I make my own which is perfect, and then have another.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

And they problem is?

Exactly.

[BipolarBob]

Gave it all up...and am relatively sane now.

Sanity is overrated in an insane world. Hendricks has the most floral and delicate taste. It can easily be drank straight (with an ice cube). I don't drink it anymore but if I did . . . it'd be Hendricks or nuffin'.

[Seruzawa]

Did someone say "vindaloo"?

[Calvin Locke]

Not this gin drinker. I'm one of the estimated 10 to 30% of the population that can't stand coriander (cilantro/Mexican parsley), and try avoid the ones that overuse it to compensate for the lack of aromatic blending skills.

Bombay's fine, Tanq, Gordons, Boodles, etc. Beefeater has a complicated blend of coriander. I know it's Beefeater from the first awful taste, then it's okay, and then awful on the finish.

Seagram's sucks throughout, and is barely half degree better than any generic gin, meaning that it's way overpriced.

(Did you know that JF'n Kerry was once engaged to a gin heiress, Gilbey's maybe, but she was only worth about $60M at the time, and it wasn't enough for the penniless Kerry?)

[AlaskaErik]

There is no such thing as bad gin.

I'm in my 60s and I'd never had gin before, but last year I tried a gin and tonic and found it to be disgustingly vile tasting. I couldn't even finish it. I don't foresee any more gin in my future.

[Oatka]

Waaay off topic, but in 1879 the Brits fought the Zulus at Gingindlovu. The troops had problems with the name, so they called it (drum roll) "Gin Gin I Love You".

[nickcarraway]

Did Michael Caine say that in a movie?

[bobby.223]

Only Gin I drink. Damn!

[KC_for_Freedom]

I am too, but for a while Tanquary made a variation of their gin which was fantastic. It is called Rangpur, more volitile herbs, I am down to my last quarter bottle and its almost impossible to find anymore.

[Ken H]

Always drink gin with a mark. He can’t tell if you cut it.

[markomalley]

Is there such thing as good gin?

Not the biggest gin fan: far too many of them taste like a solvent I'd use on my car's engine.

Personally, the only exception to that rule that I've run into is Bombay Sapphire. Not saying there aren't some others in that price range that are really good, but I haven't ever run into another one that is both affordable and tasty (and that includes brands such as Gordons, Beefeaters, Tanqueray, and so on).

[NB: the above comments do not include the super-premium (read: $$$$$$) gins...but I refuse to drop $35 to $60 for a fifth of any clear liquor]