delicious recipes are illustrated with bright and beautiful original artwork in a book that makes a lovely gift for your friends—or yourself! It truly is a global history, focusing on the development of gin styles from sweet and malty to dry and crisp, along with relevant period illustrations giving the reader a broad sense of just how important gin has been in the world of spirits.

Well, premium-ised it, I suppose, is a better way of saying it, because tonic’s been around for a long, long time. The story begins with the aromatic juniper berry originally used by the Dutch to flavour the whisky-like genever. I have well over half a dozen books on the history of gin on my bookshelf, and yet there always seems to be more that needs to be said. This beautifully packaged guide will make the perfect companion for gin lovers across Scotland and the UK, as well as gin-loving visitors to Scotland.

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com at the colonial gin and tonic—it’s in the cocktail section—there are photos of the daily dramming on the left hand side where these troops in the 1900s were getting their rations every morning. And yet, he has an understanding, an ability to cut through bullshit when people are selling it to him. He holds a Level 2 Award in Spirits from the WSET and is Channel 4’s resident Gin Expert on Sunday Brunch. Following the rules dictated by supply and demand, The Little Book of Gin is here to toast gin's extraordinary 'ginaissance' in the 21st century and to celebrate everyone's tipple of choice through wit and wisdom, facts and stats in a single serving-sized compendium. If you say, ‘Okay, I like this gin that he said is citrusy and works well with this,’ you can flick through the book very easily to find something he’s said the same thing about and therefore make the inference that you might like that too.Sky Wave Gin”, the ombred logo, the wave motif and “The Spirit of Oxfordshire” are registered trademarks of The Sky Wave Distilling Company Limited. What he does do is a pretty handy guide as to, ‘Okay this tonic suits more citrusy gins, or this tonic suits more herbal or spiced ones. A relatively loose definition of gin has allowed for a boom in specialist gin distilleries and an ever-broadening range of floral, citrus, herbal, spiced, fruity, and umami gins.