PRODUCTION O SPIRITS

"Gin": Gin was first produced in Holland in the sixteenth century as a medicinal spirit, flavored with the oil of juniper (“genievre” in French’; “jenever” or “genever” in Dutch—Anglicised to gin). The spirit was brought to England and acquired sufficient popularity in places such as London, Portsmouth,Plymouth and Bristol.Distilled gin is obtained by original distillation of mash or by there installation of distilled spirits, with juniper berries and other plants, The grain
formula consists of 75% corn, 15% barley malt and 10% other grains and the resulting spirit has to be mixed with distilled water as it is too strong to drink.Each distiller has his own secret formula, which, in some cases has not altered since the first distiller made gin.There are several kinds of gin. Altogether “London dry” is the most commonly used. There are others not at all alike in flavor. Old Tom gin is slightly more perfumed and sweeter; Golden gin is a dry gin and because it is aged, is gold or straw colored, but the distiller by law cannot make any age claim; Plymouth gin is the driest of all and is produced by one distiller only-Coates and Co. The sweetest is Sloe gin-a mixture of dry gin and sloe berries.