Guatemalan Cacao in Gin? Hendrick’s Says Yes

Master distiller Lesley Gracie developed the new profile after encountering cacao flowers in a Mexico City bar and experimenting with Guatemalan Theobroma Lachuá beans.

The Hands Down Best Way To Drink Contemporary Gins

If you are a gin fan, then you have certainly heard of contemporary gin, a style that is gaining momentum and appreciation in ...
Forbes

Will Gin Botanicals Be A Climate Change Challenge? It’s A Mixed Bag

As climate continues to change, those in the distilling industry have been up against many a challenge. One would think that gin, which is reliant on botanicals like juniper berries and coriander, may ...
Food & Wine

What Makes Gin Taste Like Gin?

It’s the botanicals and versatility of this spirit that have led gin to the forefront of trendy cocktail culture. Merlyn is an editor of news and trending content for Food & Wine's news vertical. Her ...
Fort Collins Coloradoan

Try this gin for its historic distillation process and unique blend of botanicals

Sir Winston Churchill once said, “The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.” He may have been onto something. The earliest versions of gin ...
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New Cincinnati gin is infused with botanicals from Krohn Conservatory. Here’s how to get it

CINCINNATI (Enquirer) - Nearly nine months after selling her Over-the-Rhine cocktail lounge Japp’s, mixologist Molly Wellmann is back celebrating the city she loves. This time, it’s with the release ...
Forbes

Golf Gin Made With Botanicals Harvested Near Or On Golf Courses

Gins made with locally grown or foraged ingredients have been trending for a while. But a gin made with golf course botanicals? That’s a new thing. And it’s a thing being done in the world-renowned ...
Paste

Caorunn Scottish Gin

Few spirits present an opportunity for specific, regional marketing quite the way that gin does, thanks to the nature of gin botanicals. Those “botanicals,” of course, are the term we use to describe ...
Indy Week

First Rule of Gin Club: Toss the Tonic and Smell the Botanicals

She sits with a group gathered in a corner booth at Bittersweet. They all break into laughter. I follow suit, but only because I want to blend. There are six members at tonight’s gin club meeting in ...
BBC

Botanical library to aid Scottish gin producers

Scientists at Heriot-Watt University have created a botanical library to help gin producers create new products. The experts have tested 72 plants and fungus used by distillers - ranging from nettles ...
BBC

Botanical library to aid Scottish gin producers

The experts have tested 72 plants and fungus used by distillers - ranging from nettles to lavender and the chaga fungus, which grows on birch trees. They hope the body of knowledge will also boost ...