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Orange Blooded [2203]
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Gin anyone?
Dec 1, 2020, 9:18 AM
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When I stopped drinking I was on a 10 yr Gin run. I had switch from bourbon to gin. Brokers gin was my favorite but also liked Beefeater, Bombay, Tanqueray and others. I was drinking a poor man's martini (gin, water and ice). Gin and tonic is very hard to beat and a gin martini with a small onion called a Gibson (no olive) for me. I do miss the gin and tonic very much. Tonic plays well with gin for some reason.
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Lot o points [155707]
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Yep, I'm a gin and tonic guy in the warm months.
Dec 1, 2020, 9:20 AM
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Settled on a few gins I really like, and started playing around more with the various tonics that are out there. There's a whole new world when you get outside the Canada Dry.
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Heisman Winner [119597]
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Canada Dry, yech...never!***
Dec 1, 2020, 9:21 AM
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I'm sure you've tried Fever Tree.
Dec 1, 2020, 9:24 AM
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Pretty interesting story--guy used to (try to) create and distill the best possible gin, and then it dawned on him that 75% of a gin and tonic was the second part. So he recalibrated and worked on creating the best possible tonic.
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Lot o points [155707]
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Yeah....good stuff!***
Dec 1, 2020, 9:32 AM
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All-In [47795]
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agreed. G&T in summer months.
Dec 1, 2020, 11:08 AM
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The fever tree offerings of tonic are fun as are some of the craft brews. I usually stick to Tanq Ten for its medicinal properties
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Heisman Winner [119597]
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I go back to hendricks/tonic every once in a while
Dec 1, 2020, 9:20 AM
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when other things get too ordinary...
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It's cold gin time again***
Dec 1, 2020, 9:27 AM
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Re: Gin anyone?
Dec 1, 2020, 9:37 AM
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Ryan Reynolds recently sold his gin company for 610 million. I am too jealous to drink gin anymore.
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All-In [38116]
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you should start drinking again
Dec 1, 2020, 9:38 AM
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do it.
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Orange Blooded [2203]
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Re: you should start drinking again
Dec 1, 2020, 9:41 AM
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I would rather live than drink I guess.
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Re: you should start drinking again
Dec 1, 2020, 9:41 AM
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Its a close call tho.
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tell us about when you hit rock bottom
Dec 1, 2020, 11:19 AM
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I love stories of despair and self destruction.
Please please!!
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Re: tell us about when you hit rock bottom
Dec 1, 2020, 3:22 PM
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It got to a point that Gin or any kind of alcohol was not giving me a buzz any more. When I stopped I was drinking a 5th a night. I have always been a mean drunk and wife was not a happy camper. I knew that I could not drink like that for long so I quite. I had quite for some time and someone said you should just drink a glass of red wine a night. I tried that but the glass ended up being the whole bottle and not a small bottle. I do miss drinking tho so drink up for me.
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Re: you should start drinking again
Dec 1, 2020, 12:03 PM
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I need you to be my life coach. Life would be so much easier.
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Brokers, yes! Very good for the money. At the start of COVID
Dec 1, 2020, 11:27 AM
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APM was G&Ting on the deck pretty often. I like G&Ts any time, but more so in the warm or getting warm months. It's Scotch season now.
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Sometimes, when I am rolling down the street smoking indo,
Dec 1, 2020, 12:16 PM
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I sip on gin and juice, usually laid back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind.
I think that is from a guy named Trey in a band called Fish.
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Lot o points [163010]
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The Botanist
Dec 1, 2020, 7:24 PM
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Re: The Botanist
Dec 1, 2020, 7:31 PM
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Very good gin.
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