{"id":492,"date":"2008-10-21T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2008-12-23T14:17:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T21:17:53","slug":"review-bafferts-gin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Review &#8211; Bafferts Gin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bafferts was the first unique Gin I added to my collection.\u00c2\u00a0 I received it as a gift for my 22nd birthday from some close friends.\u00c2\u00a0 I have consumed nearly none of it in the time since then (almost 7 years).\u00c2\u00a0 From our review I now see that that is due partly to its lack luster flavor profile.\u00c2\u00a0 To start it seems quite promising with a pleasant, almost Scotch-esque nose.\u00c2\u00a0 However, once you start consuming you get unpleasant metallic notes at the outset.\u00c2\u00a0 No strong flavors shine through, which led one of our tasters to comment that its like you &#8220;cut Gin with neutral spirits&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall little juniper flavor comes through.\u00c2\u00a0 Our overall take on this gin is that its not so much a bad Gin as simply not a good Gin.\u00c2\u00a0 It might be a good choice for someone looking to start a Gin drinking career, but I think there are better starting point.\u00c2\u00a0 Bombay Sapphire for example.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bafferts-1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-493\" title=\"Bafferts Gin\" src=\"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bafferts-1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bafferts-1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bafferts-1024-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bafferts was the first unique Gin I added to my collection.\u00c2\u00a0 I received it as a gift for my 22nd birthday from some close friends.\u00c2\u00a0 I have consumed nearly none of it in the time since then (almost 7 years).\u00c2\u00a0 From our review I now see that that is due partly to its lack luster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[34,207,206],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-gin","tag-review","tag-tasting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}