Gin is Now Made in Many different ways using a variety of herbs, resulting in many styles and varieties to choose from
Gin Gin is a flavoured, distilled, colourless to pale yellow liquor manufactured from pure spirits obtained from a grain mash and primarily flavoured with the juniper fruit. It includes both the malty-flavoured and full-bodied Netherlands kinds as well as the drier forms produced in the United Kingdom and the United States, which are distinguished by distinct botanical flavouring. Dutch brandy are normally served unmixed or with water because their flavour is too unique to blend well with other beverages. The drier variety, often known as London dry, can be consumed straight or mixed with other ingredients to form martinis and gimlets, as well as lengthy drinks like the Tom Collins and brandy and tonic. The beverage's name stems from the French word genièvre, which was changed to genever by the Dutch and abbreviated to Gin by the English. Franciscus Sylvius, a 17th-century professor of medicine at the University of Leiden in Holland, is said to have created it by distilling the ...