Gin

Product Description

Mother's Milk or Blue Ruin Dutch Courage or Cuckold's Comfort
- the fanciful nicknames that gin has acquired only hint at its colourful story. The story begins with the aromatic juniper berry originally used by the Dutch to flavour the whisky-like genever. The drink then made its way to Britain where cheap imitations laced with turpentine & other caustic fillers made it the drink of choice for poor eighteenth-century Londoners. Eventually replaced by the sweetened Old Tom style & then by London Dry gin was introduced to the wider world by means of the British Empire & during the Jazz Age became a mainstay of a new drinking culture: the cocktail. Today classic cocktails like the Gimlet & the Negroni are embraced by drinkers who enjoy a new breed of modern gins & gin has reclaimed pride of place in the world of mixology. Gin: A Global History will attract both cocktail aficionados & lovers of food history as it chronicles gin's evolution from cheap liquor to modern alcoholic marvel.