# Help a gin noob

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 5, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-gin-noob/338516 "2006-01-05T03:44:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-gin-noob/338516/41 "2006-01-06T06:49:15Z")

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From _The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America,_ by Adrian Wooldridge and John Micklethwait (Penguin Press, 2004), discussing Barry Goldwater’s run for president in 1964:

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> It wasn’t just a question of extremism. Goldwater cheerfully broke all the basic rules of politics. . . . One fan came up with a drink called “Gold Water – The Right Drink for the Conservative Tase.” The candidate, with characteristic political sensitivity, promptly spat it out. “This tastes like piss!” he spluttered. “I wouldn’t drink it with gin.”

Never tasted this “Gold Water” beverage, but, IMO, Goldwater had the right assessment of gin.

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**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-gin-noob/338516/42 "2006-01-06T13:15:30Z")

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\*\*Pookah[/: I don’t drink gin in bars here. Like you say, I like to pay rent and eat food.

However we stocked up on alcohol while in the North (loads cheaper) for xmas, so gin and rum drinking at home is not a problem!

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**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-gin-noob/338516/43 "2006-01-08T10:42:01Z")

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Just a quick bump: I did part of my Great Gin Experiment tonight. I was invited to a dinner party (clear drinks ONLY!, as the host had white carpet) and decided it would be a good time to try the old G and T. I ended up going with the Hendrick’s, which turned out to be a huge hit at the party. Prodigious amounts of Seagram’s was brought by others, but the Hendrick’s was gone in a heartbeat. I think I’ve found my new favorite drink, and even managed to turn The Highwayman onto gin :D. Thanks Dopers, you’re the bestest.

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