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Happy Xmas from Chinnery Dublin Dry Gin.
Leah Kilcullen writes:
Chinnery Gin have released a Christmas video, inspired by our award-winning Georgian Dublin-inspired bottle design (top).
Concept and production by Mati Remi, a production design student, who handmade everything you see…a lovely visual of Dublin town!
Larry Goodman must not see this.
Last night.
Zozimus, South Anne Street, Dublin 2.
This just gin.
Emily Cox writes:
The great and the good of the Irish Drinks world were out in force to celebrate the first-ever Best Gin ‘Oscar’ Win for an Irish Gin in Dublin last night.
Dublin’s renowned Zozimus bar & cocktail venue threw a gala party in honour of Leitrim brand, Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, winning the Best Gin Award 2019 at the Flaviar Spirit Awards in New York.
The win has boosted the gin’s popularity across the world resulting in the brand landing in ten new countries in just 6 months, with Finland becoming the 50thinternational market to list the much-loved Irish Gin…
From top: group shot; Laura Pasquale and Kevin Flanagan; John and Agneta Crean; Alice Brophy and Marianne Healy; Clare Campbell and Keifa Murray; Pat Rigney and John Crean.
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Pics: Karen Morgan
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Blackwater Barry’s Tea Irish Gin is returning.
Donna Parsons writes:
Last year’s run sold-out in most retailers within a few weeks and this second limited run (10,000 bottles) is likely to sell out just as quickly.
The innovative gin combines Barry’s Tea Classic Blend with Sicilian lemons, sweet Spanish oranges, juniper berries and cinnamon.
Barry’s Tea is one of Ireland’s best loved brands, a must have in most households. A cup of tea is a daily ritual for most of us and is a welcome addition to any occasion. It’s something that we send to loved ones abroad and pack in our suitcases going on holidays.
Combining tea with gin, was an innovative and exciting move. Gin has fast become one of Ireland’s favourite spirits with a huge increase of craft distillers making some interesting blends with anything from seaweed to coriander.
We have ONE (yes one!) bottle of Blackwater Barry’s Tea Irish Gin to give away to a deserving, gin and tea loving Broadsheet reader.
To enter, please complete this sentence:
I deserve the bottle of Blackwater Barry’s Tea Irish Gin especially at this time owing to________________________________________________’
Lines MUST close at 1.30pm 6.30pm!
Tommy_Thinks tweetz:
Cork Gin…combined with Corks finest tay. Well sweet baby Jesus! Christmas has come early lads!
We’re b’hic…
Ciamhie McDigital tweetz:
I’ve seen it all now!!! Just spotted Gin & Tonic POPCORN in @dunnesstores
Copyright lawyer Brian Conroy writes:
Did everyone else know this was a thing? I’m not much a gin drinker (I dabbled around the time of Snoop Dogg’s Gin & Juice) so it could just have passed me by, but there’s an application in the Trade Mark office in Ireland for this, Bertha’s Revenge Small Batch Irish Milk Gin…
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Peter Mulryan, of the Blackwater Distillery
It’s not only in craft breweries where you can’t buy a drink.
Peter Mulryan, of the Blackwater Distillery, Co Waterford (makers of gin) writes:
The other day here on Broadsheet, Joe Kearns from The White Hag Brewery in Sligo wrote about something close to his heart. How you can visit his brewery, but you can’t buy a drink, which is a bit like being allowed to visit a library as long as you don’t take out any books.
The same holds true for Ireland’s burgeoning craft distilleries. We can make the stuff, but we can’t sell it. With our licence to distill, comes a wholesales licence, not a retail licence.
So what counts as wholesale? I’m glad you asked, because I did and this was the response I got: “not less than two gallons or one dozen reputed quart bottles.” A quart by the way is two pints. Not that we even sell spirits by the pint.
By now you will I hope, realise that most of law governing alcohol in Ireland pre-dates the State. So it’s pretty much the same legislation than helped drive the Irish whiskey industry off a cliff 100 years ago.
Back then distillers didn’t sell direct to the public, they did what we are still forced to do today. Sell to that stalwart of Irish drama “The Middle Man”. Distilleries distilled. Brewers brewed. They didn’t sell. It was the bars and the bonders that bottled Jameson whiskey and Guinness beer and in doing so took the lion’s share of the profit. By the time distilleries and brewers woke up to this fact, it was too late. Most had been driven out of business.
Nowadays multi-national brewers and distillers have the best of both worlds, they can sell to middle men or directly to the public. How? They have deep enough pockets to buy pub licences. And that is the core of problem, the system that governs the sale of alcohol in this country is as out of date as the a-fore mentioned quart bottle.
So why not (as a commenter to the original article asked) charge for a tour and give a free drink? Many breweries do just that. But what if you don’t want a ‘free’ drink, what if you’re driving? What if you want to take a bottle with you? What if you’re sick of yet another Irish solution to an Irish problem?
So here’s an idea. Why not let brewers, cider makers and distillers sell what they make (and nothing more) on the premises where they make it?
We’d be taking trade from pubs? Good point. Forget about JD Wetherspoon, the real threat to the traditional Irish pub is actually a small industrial unit just outside Cappoquin.Having lived in Scotland I know what whisky tourism there does for rural areas. If we’re serious about our native brewers, cider makers and distillers – let’s support them. Let them add a tourism offering but if you think the current model is working you’re a fool. Probably the kind of fool who visits the vineyards in the Rhone Valley and buys all their wine at a Carrefour on the Périphérique.
Previously: An Absurd Brewhaha
Gordon’s?
Or the one from Aldi that looks a bit like Gordon’s?
There’s so much more to it.
To wit:
Before compounds from the botanical ingredients are extracted into the gin, the spirit is essentially flavourless. The flavour that’s imparted depends on the exact ingredients added, the specifics of which, for most gin makers, are a closely guarded secret. However, in the EU at least, the dominant flavour must be that of juniper berries. These contribute a wide range of terpene compounds to the gin: alpha-pinene, beta-myrcene, limonene, gamma-terpinene, p-cymene, sabinene, and beta-pinene. Some of these are also contributed by other additions; for example, limonene is extracted from dried citrus fruit peels that may also be added during the redistillation process. Generally, they tend to confer woody and herbaceous tones to the flavour of the gin. Oxygenated terpenes also play a part, and these too come from juniper berries.
READ ON: The Chemistry Of Gin (And Tonic) (Compound Interest)
An all-in-one rotating ‘ginamatron’ in walnut wood containing everything required for a refeshing Blue Ruin ‘n’ tonic – a collaboration between Bombay Sapphire and design firm AvroKO.
At €375, you’ll probably want to make that first one a double.
Fancy starting each day in December with a wince and a jolt?
Your Advent calendars have arrived, so.
Ginvent (24 individually labelled and wax-sealed bottles of gin, from popular to artisanal brands) for €99.29
Or the Whisky Advent Calendar (24 ‘handpicked drams’) for €186.09
