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liquid juniper that armed an empire and ruined eighteenth-century London in equal measure
means A clear distilled spirit flavored chiefly with juniper berries, drunk neat, chilled, or as the backbone of countless cocktails.
from The name is a clipping of older English 'geneva' or 'genever,' which has nothing to do with the Swiss city — it comes from Dutch 'jenever,' meaning juniper, ultimately from Latin 'juniperus.' Dutch distillers perfected the juniper-laced spirit, and English soldiers fighting in the Low Countries brought home both the drink and its 'Dutch courage,' shortening the mouthful to plain 'gin.'
- botanical law
- legally must taste predominantly of juniper berries
- gin craze
- 1700s Londoners drank it instead of unsafe water
- tonic trick
- quinine in tonic once fought malaria for colonists
- bathtub origins
- Prohibition gin was distilled in actual bathtubs
- name shrinkage
- derived from genever, itself from juniper in Dutch
tanqueray — british gin distilled in scotland since 1830, world's best-selling premium gin
bombay sapphire — indian-inspired gin by bombay dry, known for distinctive blue bottle and 10 botanicals
hendrick's — scottish gin infused with cucumber, launched 1999 and revolutionized gin cocktails
gordon's london dry — world's best-selling gin globally, produced since 1769 in england