Gin the Mood: 50 gin cocktail recipes that are just the ticket
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Gin the Mood: 50 gin cocktail recipes that are just the ticket
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The big brands are still the lion’s share of volume in the UK. The big four or five gins that you can think of—Gordon’s, Tanqueray and Bombay Sapphire etc—are still eighty percent of the market. So, of course, the bulk of the volume is theirs.
Yes, on every level. What could you use as the base? What could you use as botanicals? What hasn’t been done? And also, when you’ve made your gin, could you then infuse something into it—rhubarb or something else? There are experiments on all of those fronts. I think of gin, or a gin and tonic, as the most traditionally English drink imaginable. But, like so many great things, it actually came from the Low Countries. Is that right?Let’s go through the books you’ve chosen. The first one on the list is Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason (2002) by Jessica Warner. It’s an illustrated history about the gin craze in the 18th century. It’s quite ironic because, these days, gin and tonic has slightly posh connotations—but it started off as a drink of the poor. I think sustainable has somehow, in the last year, become a bit of a buzzword that some businesses are using it as a way to get investment. Same thing with B Corp… people were applying for it for credibility down the road.'
The daily dramming, in terms of rations, would have been given to troops. If they were at sea, they would have been given lime cordial to avoid scurvy. And if they were on land, in the colonial era across the Raj and certainly southeast India, they would have been given quinine which, at first, came in cordial form. It would be like a dark brown, syrupy, ridiculously bitter thing to put down your throat. Later, the compounds were isolated and it became pills and you have quinine pills. That has carried on today to malaria tablets which are still, essentially, quinine in massive concentration.
Gin: Shake, Muddle, Stir: Over 40 of the Best Cocktails for Serious Gin Lovers / by Dan Jones
Gin is a neutral spirit that is then redistilled with botanicals. It’s a neutral spirit that’s been rectified. Sustainability wasn't me doing it for other people, it was us doing it for the right reasons for our business.' Gin wasn't necessarily my love. I love creating something that people enjoy and brings people together. It was very different, in that the Brits did not have the distilling heritage or prowess or knowledge. Right at the start, and certainly in the 1600s, it was far inferior to jenever. But they were trying to replicate it and so they created their own version that became known—just reduced to that one monosyllable—as ‘gin.’
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