{"id":316,"date":"2008-09-04T19:04:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T02:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2008-09-04T19:04:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T02:04:44","slug":"gin-tasting-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Gin Tasting #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly after the launch of Cocktail Hacker Aaron and I hosted a Gin tasting and I’ve been much too lazy in getting the details posted.\u00c2\u00a0 So, here’s the start of the correction to that problem.<\/p>\n

Both Aaron and I are huge Gin fans and my collection of the same has grown quite large, 19 bottles at current count.\u00c2\u00a0 That in mind we wanted to get our thoughts on each documented so we invited some friends over and chose six bottles to taste.\u00c2\u00a0 In attendance were Sean, Eric, Jeff, Aaron and I.\u00c2\u00a0 Now let me start this tale by saying that we all enjoy Gin, but none of us had ever done any sort of formal tasting.<\/p>\n

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The Gins we chose from left to right are: Jackelope<\/a>, Plymouth<\/a>, CapRock<\/a>, Old Raj<\/a>, Bafferts<\/a> and Juniper Green<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 My plan behind choosing these six was to select Gins that I guessed most of the tasters had never tasted before.\u00c2\u00a0 However, being a spirit tasting neophyte I had no idea in what order we should taste.\u00c2\u00a0 Sean had had some experience tasting wine and so I gave him the job of putting the Gins in tasting order.<\/p>\n

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After having sniffed each thoroughly Sean chose a “roller coaster” style of tasting in that the flavors (based on the scents alone) should go up and down throughout the course of the tasting.\u00c2\u00a0 This was the wrong plan we found out, but more on that later.\u00c2\u00a0 Once the order was decided Eric decided he first needed to sample some Bombay Sapphire.\u00c2\u00a0 The thinking being Sapphire is a Gin we’re all familiar with so it would serve as a good baseline for the rest of the tasting.\u00c2\u00a0 So there it began.\u00c2\u00a0 We ended up sampling all six (well seven, technically) Gins then retired for some sushi on Pearl Street.<\/p>\n

I’ll be writing up our thoughts on each of the Gins over the next few weeks and I’m sure that the Cocktail Hacker tasting parties will continue so we’ll be sure to document those as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully in a more timely manner.<\/p>\n

[NOTE] There are a lot more pictures from the tasting in the Cocktail Hacker Flickr Pool<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Which, now that I think about it, I’ve not mentioned here before.\u00c2\u00a0 Check it out, there are some nice images in there. [\/NOTE]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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