Ebook: Gin a Tasting Course_ A Flavour-focused Approach to the World of Gin

The ultimate visual guide for all things gin, from botanicals and styles to local producers and distillation processes Become a gin expert and discover your own gin tasting experience. A basic history ascribes gin to a host of medicinal properties, from gin the diuretic keeping the pestilence at bay, to "Dutch courage" preventing scurvy for sailors, before it was mixed with quinine-containing tonic water to become the ubiquitous and ever-popular gin and tonic in the hope of preventing malaria. More recently, a boom in specialist gin distilleries has been enabled by its relatively loose definition-the spirit must contain juniper as its main botanical ingredient-and smaller producers have sprung up, incorporating their own unique botanic combinations into the spirit and populating the gin market with an ever-broadening range of floral, citrus, nutty, herbal, spiced, and fruity gins. Gin: A Tasting Course revels in the diversity of the gin...