[ChicagoConservative27]

The list,

New York Distilling Company Perry’s Tot Navy Strength Gin

Fords Gin

Sông Cái Việt Nam Floral Gin

Gin Mare Mediterranean Gin

Xoriguer Gin de Mahón

Cadenhead Old Raj Dry Gin

[monkeyshine]

Chocolate

[Uncle Miltie]

Punch is excellent. I often visit after I’ve read everything on FR.

Here’s my latest homebrew cocktail in case it floats your boat:

1 oz Beefeaters Gin
1 oz St. Germain
1 oz Dolin Genepy
1 oz Zubrowka Bisongrass Vodka
3 dashes grapefruit bitters
Lemongrass infused simple syrup to taste

Combine ingredients in shaker over ice and stir until frosty and a bit diluted (45 seconds?)

Strain into a coupe
Garnish with a wedge of Meyer Lemon

Yum!

[Texas_Jarhead]

I’ve taken a liking to the Vesper Martini. I like Ford’s and Citadelle the most.

[Fledermaus]

None. Gin is disgusting.

[Sirius Lee]

Drumshando for me. Drop of vermouth, drop of orange bitters, and a tweest of lemon peel.

[Paal Gulli]

“The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived. The fragile tie of ecstasy is broken in a few minutes, and thereafter there can be no remarriage.”

— Bernard De Voto

[Bullish]

Purely a matter of taste... Be sure to make mine dry and dirty.

[CarmichaelPatriot]

Bombay Sapphire or Tanqueray for me. All those on the list are hard to find so the bartenders probably prefer them for their higher price which means bigger tip.

[llevrok]

Plymouth.

[know.your.why]

Gina

[llevrok]

There was a man named Sweenie,
who spilt some gin on his weenie.
Not thought to be uncouth, he spilt some vermouth
And later slipped his wife a martini

[abb]

Very partial to Plymouth Navy Strength. I also use Ernest Hemingway’s recipe, which has a ratio of 15 parts gin to 1 part vermouth. He called it The Montgomery.

https://www.ciprianidrinks.com/en/recipes/cocktails/gin/montgomery/

ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND GENERAL MONTGOMERY

The Montgomery cocktail is more than a just simple cocktail, it is the legacy Ernest Hemingway has given to the world of Mixology. When he visited Harry’s Bar, the writer used to order a Dry Martini with a slightly modified recipe, yet with precise proportions. “He preferred that the Vermouth, in respect to the Gin, not exceed a proportion of one to fifteen. The same proportion – Hemingway would say – with which the famous English General Montgomery was fighting his battles during the Second World War: fifteen of his soldiers against for each of his enemy’s” (source: “Harry’s Bar Venezia, Le ricette della tradizione“, Arrigo Cipriani).

I was blessed last year to visit the bar in Venice, Italy where that drink was invented and enjoy one. Memorable.

https://www.cipriani.com/harrys-bar

[llevrok]

Beware of the humble martini!
Have one or two at most,
but three and you’re under your host!

[butlerweave]

I’ve never had a Martini , I don’t drink I drank enough in my Army days ,LOL

[abb]

Here is a neat article published in the American Heritage magazine back in 1997. I still have the paper copy somewhere around in my library.

https://www.americanheritage.com/there-something-about-martini

There Is Something about a Martini

IT’S MORE THAN JUST A POTENT DRINK, AND MORE THAN THE INSPIRATION FOR SOME HANDSOME ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT. IT IS MODERN TIMES, BROUGHT TO YOU IN A BEAUTIFUL CHALICE.

by Max Rudin
July/August 1997
Volume 48 Issue 4

[Dogfaced Soldier]

Ford’s is my choice for martinis. Tanqueray for Gin and Tonics.

[posterchild]

For drinkers: the best flavor for the cost
For bartenders: the one which produces the biggest tip
For bar owners: the cheapest variety one can get away with that tastes like what the customer expects

[Rummyfan]

I prefer a vodka martini myself…. Ketel One. And the secret is…. You just wave the bottle of vermouth over it!

[Tadhg]

Gray Whale Gin

[13foxtrot]

Never even heard of those listed in the article.

Bombay Sapphire is my go to.