Piet van Leijenhorst, Master Distiller at Lucas Bols is an expert when it comes to the traditional Dutch spirit Genever. Bols Genever is the original Dutch spirit, created from lightly distilled Dutch grains and a complex botanical mix.

These first cocktails were often made with genever, because of its powerful, delicious flavors and balanced mixing qualities.Inn Express provides this information in good faith, but it's important to note that its accuracy and completeness depend on the suppliers.

For a true taste of Holland, combine it with a glass of white beer and partake in the traditional Dutch ritual of a ‘Kopstootje’. Having been distilling spirits for some 440 years, Bols can rightly claim to have more than an idea about what they are doing. Bols Original Genever blends our malt spirit with 22 botanicals ranging from juniper berries, hops and coriander, to cloves and ginger. Bols Genever Amsterdam Gin is a characterful and unique combination of re-distilled botanicals and refined with pure grain alcohol.

Made with a malt wine base as opposed to neutral spirit the result is a rich, full bodied like whisky but with the herbal complexity of a wondeful gin. I intend to try it as an ingredient in an Old Fashioned style cocktail, as either a rinse or split base spirit but it seems my intentions of creating a delicious, full bodied, juniper heavy, crisp and sharp cocktail have failed for the time being.