What do gin do?
The liquid basis for the future gin is grain alcohol. Mostly, this is a wheat distillate, however, barley is used in some types of drink: both pure and with the addition of rye and corn.
Juniper berries are an integral ingredient of high-quality gin, giving the drink an incomparable freshness, species identity, taste and aroma.
In addition to juniper, the vegetable base for gin can consist of a variety of components added in various combinations and proportions.
Among them: lemon and orange peel, almonds, nutmeg, orris root, angelica or violets, anise, angelica, licorice, cardamom, coriander root and seeds, cinnamon, cassia bark, etc.
There is also gin, which contains kava kava leaves and tea tree berries.
Gin types
gin cocktails
Jeniver (juniper)
Dutch gin is still produced in the Netherlands and neighboring Belgium by distilling barley malt mixed with juniper berries and then aging the resulting product in oak barrels.
In fact, this particular 35-degree drink has little in common with classic gin. Therefore, it is not surprising that jeniver is often considered as a separate representative of the alcohol world.
Old Tom Gin
The English gin Old Tom, extremely popular in the XNUMXth century, became a kind of intermediate link between jeniver and modern modifications of the juniper drink.
It was made without the use of a vertical distillation unit, which was still unknown at that time, which adversely affected the strength and taste of the drink.
In order to somehow ennoble this very low-quality alcohol, Old Tom gin was usually flavored with sugar.
Today, the revived drink is produced using modern methods of alcohol purification, but using interesting technologies, proportions and techniques drawn from old recipes; and of course, with the same sugar.
London dry gin
With the invention of the vertical still came the most popular London dry gin (aka dry gin) today.
Its distinguishing features are: the complete absence of sugar and the use of technologies introduced in the century before last by London gin makers.
Hence the famous cold, “metallic” taste of the drink produced all over the world and the more prominent manifestation of herbal additives in it.
plymouth gin
The production technology is in many ways similar to its London “colleague”.
But unlike the latter, this drink can only be produced in the Devonshire port city of the same name.
This drink is usually softer, and its aroma has characteristic floral notes.
However, there is a harsh marine version of Plymouth gin, whose 57-degree strength does not prevent gunpowder from igniting if accidentally hit on it.
yellow gin
Very rare, one might say, semi-mythical yellow gin.
It is made according to the classic gin technology, after which, like jenever, it is aged for some time in oak barrels; True, not simple ones, but from under sherry.
As a result, the drink acquires a yellowish color and a completely unique taste.
tips on how to drink gin the right way
Popular brands of gin
Of the modern brands of gin, it is worth highlighting:
bombay sapphire
Beefeater
Gordons
Tanqueray
Hendrix
gin recipes at home
Relevance: 18.02.2016
tags: gin