contact, 06-Dec-2019 SIPSMITH LONDON DRY ... the UK industry was valued at £3bn. £30.49, thewhiskyexchange.com, 7. Licensed venues now stock an average of 8.2 gin brands – well over twice the average of two years ago. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Sharp and powerful, you get a satisfying thwack of juniper flavour and real pepperiness. The perfect martini demands a bone dry London gin. Beefeater, on the other hand, is new on the list but making a good first impression with a 10.1% rise in volume sales over the past 12 months.
Esquire participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Because if it’s good enough for Ryan Reynolds, it’ll do us. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. This may be a pink gin but the hue is so pale you’ll barely notice, especially if you’re mixing it. £32.50, harveynichols.com, 9. Try it with ginger ale, a cinnamon stick and slice of orange. Get the latest news, analysis and insights from the uk pub sector straight to your inbox! Said mixing is generally done through a process of redistilling, but a more basic method is simply to steep the spirit with the other ingredients – this will make a ‘compound’ or ‘bathtub’ gin because, well, you could technically throw everything into a bathtub and hope for the best. Add a bit of colour to your Martini with Edgerton's pink gin. Subscribe We may by a nation of gin and tonic devotees, but that doesn’t mean that your imagination has to stop at ‘ice and a slice’ (of lemon, or even lime) when making one: take a look at the bottle to find what botanicals your gin was made with, and choose one (or a few) as your garnish. Distilled gins are similar to London Drys, but their flavours can be added after re-distillation and can be natural or artificial. ANCHOR JUNÍPERO A traditional London Dry Gin, No.171 hits you with the juniper before settling in with bitter citrus flavours and the delicate, sweet touch of liquorice. Pronounced “caught shee” this is an Old Tom gin made on the Hebridean island of Colonsay. Whittling our taste test down to 118 different bottles, we tested across sloe gin, pink gin, quirky flavoured gin, flavoured gin liqueurs, classic gin and supermarket own-brand gin. £21.28, xoriguer.co.uk, 3. They account for a lot of the wackier combinations (and colours) out there. +1 (212) 419-5770 Deliciously limey. £38.50, harveynichols.com, 4. Subscribe, By Alice Leader
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