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It IS gin, but gin is flavored vodka, developed by someone back when as a kind of tonic with juniper berries and other flavorings.

My favorite mixed drink is G&T except for this weird drink called a caiparoska, which you can't get around here without explaining how to make one.

Aldehydes are bad for us.  Ethanol metabolism generates aldehydes which are somewhat attenuated by a surfeit of water.

Yeah, acetaldehyde is something that homebrewers watch out for. Gives a "green apple" flavor.

Generally it's not a big issue unless you try to finish a beer too "young", as the yeast will clean up any green apple given time. 

Heineken is good if you can get it canned or kegged... Or well-treated in the bottle.

Green glass doesn't block much UV, so the green bottles lead to skunked beer.

Oddly Corona (clear glass) doesn't have that problem. Skunking is caused by UV hitting certain hop compounds. I understand that Corona uses a hop extract or something of the sort that doesn't have those compounds in the finished beer, so it doesn't skunk.

So... The flavor of Corona is intentional ;-)

Nah Corona definitely suffers from light strike as well.  In Mexico you can find it in brown bottles in places, tastes completely different. 

Heineken canned or draft, even in the Netherlands, tastes better than it does here in green bottles, but I still don't consider it particularly good.  Their global marketing IS really good, though, that's for sure!

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Tanqueray started out as a gin, did it not?
Does that explain the juniper-flavored vodka?

We're having a little fun at the expense of the "it's not a martini if it's vodka" crowd, because technically gin is really nothing more than vodka, flavored with a particular subset of botanicals.

And I threw in another little poke at at the boutique vodka set, because again, gin is just a specialized subset of specifically-flavored vodka.

I believe I've also commented around here, of an article I read in a now-forgotten but then-trendy magazine, from maybe 15 years ago, remarking on the then-new craze of creating new boutique, flavored vodkas, and how "if we're not careful, we might just invent gin!"

Just a little fun I think.

Gin is my favorite spirit, but there are some dreadful gins out there, and I'm not just talking about bathtub gin and the stuff that will make you go blind from the bottom shelf in plastic bottles.  

Tanq, and Bombay ill pass.  

Rehorst is my favorite, Boodles, Deaths Door, Botanist, Beefeater, Old Raj, and under right mix Hendricks and Knickerbocker all pretty dang good.  

Gin is polarizing no doubt.  I don't get fuss over tanq or bombay, that's all.

Beefeater is perfectly cromulent. In other words, it's fine.   You go to a wedding, its probably there along side the Tanq or Bombay Sapphire. 

Hendricks does get typecast w cucumber but it has more range with that.  I'm with you, I don't want it with cucumber necessarily.  I like it as a gin gimlet.