{"id":420,"date":"2015-06-02T05:59:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T12:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=420"},"modified":"2015-06-16T14:17:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T21:17:41","slug":"ratings-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Ratings Enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my never ending effort to bring to you, my dear reader, the most detailed information possible in my Bar Reviews, and having a recent epiphany on how best to convey such information, I have decided to add a letter grade to future reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Why and what for you may ask?\u00a0 I&#8217;ll tell you &#8211; as an indication of the available selection of gins.<\/p>\n<p>While my Martini review will always be based on my &#8220;baseline&#8221; Bombay Sapphire Martini, I recognize that my readers may prefer another gin.\u00a0\u00a0 This will, I hope, provide some guideline on gin choices available at a reviewed restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>So an &#8220;A&#8221; would be a very outstanding selection of gins, probably 12 or more different gins with a least one &#8216;rare&#8217; or unusual gin.\u00a0\u00a0 A &#8220;B&#8221; would be a good selection, probably 8+ choices with a nice selection of styles.\u00a0 And, obviously, a &#8220;C&#8221; would be an average selection.\u00a0 You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>If a particular establishment has a unique gin I will try and note that along with grade.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think, comments are always welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my never ending effort to bring to you, my dear reader, the most detailed information possible in my Bar Reviews, and having a recent epiphany on how best to convey such information, I have decided to add a letter &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[37,12],"tags":[5,9,13],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":768,"url":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=768","url_meta":{"origin":420,"position":0},"title":"Bar Review: Ocean Prime, Philadelphia, PA &#8211; Update","author":"wlmoon58","date":"July 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I was recently in Philadelphia and decided to eat at one of my local favorites, Ocean Prime.\u00a0 I have in the past reviewed their Martini and given them my coveted two Martini rating.\u00a0 See\u00a0 \"Bar Review: Ocean Prime\".\u00a0\u00a0 But that was before I started adding a rating for Gin selection.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Restaurant&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Restaurant","link":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?cat=37"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":885,"url":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=885","url_meta":{"origin":420,"position":1},"title":"Makar Gin","author":"wlmoon58","date":"September 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"While walking around Glasgow recently,\u00a0I came across \"The Good Spirits Co.\" \u00a0and decided to stop in. \u00a0While I was intending to explore their Whiskey selection the discussion quickly turned to gins. 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