What AreYou Drinking- Right Now? - Tiki Drinks and Food

S Sunny&Rummy Member Melbourne, FL Joined: Jun 13, 2013 Posts: 601	S Sunny&Rummy Posted posted on Thu, Aug 1, 2013 8:36 PM On 2013-08-01 19:58, thePorpoise wrote: the wine is the component i almost never have on hand (champagne works especially well). i've made it without gin and its not the same. the gin is key. you must use a helluva spicy gin for it to overpower the other 88% of the components! Not necessarily spicy gins (Ransom Old Tom is probably the only one I have that I might think of as spicy, but even that is more vegetal-botanical than spicy), but the more juniper-angry ones that really clash. Something softer like Haymans or Plymouth would be what I'd reach for here, but even then for me I don't think the gin plays as well as the brandy does with the rest of this particular drink. I'm actually a big gin fan, but in a Scorpion I just haven't really found the harmony that Is typical of so many other great gin cocktails. I'll keep playing and might hit all the right notes eventually.

On 2013-08-01 19:58, thePorpoise wrote:
the wine is the component i almost never have on hand (champagne works especially well). i've made it without gin and its not the same. the gin is key.

you must use a helluva spicy gin for it to overpower the other 88% of the components!

Not necessarily spicy gins (Ransom Old Tom is probably the only one I have that I might think of as spicy, but even that is more vegetal-botanical than spicy), but the more juniper-angry ones that really clash. Something softer like Haymans or Plymouth would be what I'd reach for here, but even then for me I don't think the gin plays as well as the brandy does with the rest of this particular drink.

I'm actually a big gin fan, but in a Scorpion I just haven't really found the harmony that Is typical of so many other great gin cocktails. I'll keep playing and might hit all the right notes eventually.

Post #688316 by Sunny&Rummy on Thu, Aug 1, 2013 8:36 PM