July 28, 2013

• Cocktails

  So, there are gin people and non-gin people. Steve and I are gin people.  However, I would like to note that the majority of non-gin people who I question about which gin they have tried (and didn't like) answer, "Tanqueray." Ugh. I don't like Tanqueray either! Drinking a Tanqueray martini is like skiing into a pine tree: icy, pine-y, and painful.

  Anyway, with the hipster-driven artisanal cocktail craze going on now, there are a lot more small-batch gins being made. About four months ago, Steve and I finally got to visit Essex, which is 3/4 mile from our house and has many gin cocktails. The bartender poured us a free sample of Ballard's own Big Gin. We liked it a lot, and I bought a bottle the next week.

  We finished the bottle yesterday, and I am commemorating it here before I recycle the bottle (love you, Seattle!), since, as you can see, it was from Batch 26. I'm sure the batch numbers will soon be in the triple digits (I just bought a second bottle and it is Batch 48.) Cheers!

  

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