What exactly does Gin taste like?!
Answers: I want to try it, but I'm kind of iffy about wasting money on a bottle that I won't ever finish. Do a lot of people drink it? I'm sure someone wouldn't mind finishing a bottle for me. Also, what are the best (better) brands to purchase? I'm in Southern Louisiana, so nothing too fancy here, haha.
It's a very popular summer drink. Gin and tonic is the most popular, garnished with a lime wedge. Tom Collins is another but not as popular. That is soda, sour mix and gin and a cherry.
You also can make martinis with them. Supposedly the James Bond martini is gin. You would serve a martini with green olives, cocktail onions or a twist. The olives and onions soak up the alcohol and give it a little salty flavor. The twist, is a part of a lemon peel. You wipe the peel around the rim of the glass and the peel flavors the rim slightly.
It was the drink of choice in the roaring twenties (bathtub gin), and in MASH they made their own with surgical supplies.
Some gangstaz mix it, like Snoop, with OJ. It's not bad that way, but the more sugar you drink the more of a hangover. I dont like my drinks syrupy like that.
Sloe gin is something totally different so dont try that.
Gin is juniper, and has a very piney and biting taste. If youve had tonic water it's very similar and youll see why they go together. It's very sharp and effervescent.
Some finer gins have olive and coriander and licorice root blended in.
The buzz you get, at least with me, is a sharper buzz. It's a good socializer drink.
Brands, Tanqueray is definitely the most popular. Bombay is good. It's very dry. Bombay Sapphire is the best that I know of that I've tried. It's great.
Try minibottles if you aren't too sure.
I'd put it on par with vodka as price. Taste-wise it has a lot more going on. It's not nearly as potent in taste as a bourbon or scotch. It is somewhat in the par of rubbing alcohol or moonshine but tons less potent. At some point in the process, Id guess they have more similarities.
There's a definite culture that goes along with gin. It's a light drink, with some taste to it. If you want to have a drink taste like a drink, it might be a good one. Most of the answers here I think were from the more fruity and chocolatey drinkers.
Good luck!
Yuck. it tastes like a wino smells!
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Pine
crap, but I don't think that people buy it for its wonderful flavor
christmas tree flavored alcohol
it tastes bad bad bad!
Put it this way, it's made from the bark of a juniper tree.
THE BARK I SAID! BARK!
ugh! Vodka's much better.
Gin tastes like CRAP...well fermented bark that has been laying in a pile of crap and piss.
It taste YUK!!!!!!!!!!!!
It tastes like liquid pine trees to me. I don't like it.
i have never tried it alone, i think it is best used for making coctail drinks or sumthin
Bombay is good. make a martini
Smoke endo sip on gin & Juice. Snoop likes Tanquari
PINE TREES, BECAUSE IT IS FLAVORED WITH JUNIPER BERRIES. EVERY TIME I SAID THAT IT TASTED THIS WAY PEOPLE SAID I WAS NUTS THEN I LOOKED IT UP.
it tastes like Juniper - because its made from juniper.
That being said, if you don't know the taste of juniper, it has a mildly pine taste
Buy a minature bottle!, take a taste test!, but unless taste buds are in your ar*e, or you're 70 or older, I dont think you'll like it!
I think it task the way rubbing alcohol smells. I imagine it is similar to the taste of moonshine. Strong....... and sharp.
Pam
It tastes pretty bad but you can mix it with stuff, like slow gin and 7up is awesome, but it creeps up on you
It tastes like rubbing alcohol..nasty stuff!
really disgusting.. but it makes your chest feel nice and warm when you come in from the cold.
It's like someone has routed a sewage pipe into some sort of funnel and pass the bottles underneath to fill them up.
Have you ever wondered why people mix gin? It's because it tastes so bloody awful.
idk im drinking eggnog right now , not bad if u like rum
Gin tastes horribly. I would sitck with vodka or bailey's. dont waste ur money.
Juniper - some pine trees are juniper. The berries are used in the drink
Gin has a beautiful,fragrant flavour & smell, & mixed with certain sodas etc can be a delightful drink. To get an idea of the taste, go to your mother/wife's cooking spices & get a juniper berry & chew it. Gin is made from Juniper berries.Another way to taste without buying is go to a bar & buy the drink. My favourite brand is Vickers, There's a lot of brands to choose from, but i'm in Australia so don't know about your brands.And if you do get stuck with an unwanted bottle, remember me!
A quality gin...i.e. Bombay Sapphire=Heavenly mild with hues of evergreen and pepper.
A cheap gin....i.e. Gilbeys=Gasoline
I drink gin constantly. Pure rubbing alcohol.
As many others have commented, gin is grain alcohol infused with juniper berries and in most cases, many other berries, seeds, leaves and other items. All combine to give it a very distinctive flavor. It is very strong and, as you can tell from the overwhelming majority of the answers not to everyone's liking. I love it, mostly for the reasons most hate it. If you don't like a strong alcohol taste or if you don't like the smell of pine trees, you won't like gin. If you do decide to give gin a try, do try a good one. I'd recommend Bombay as it has a somewhat lower proof meaning it has a lower alcohol content.
some taste like pine trees smell. (tanqueray.)