2. Introduction
• Gin is a flavored alcoholic beverage.
• Produced by re-distilling high proof spirit with
Juniper berries and other flavoring agent.
• Primarily from a mixture of malted barley, wheat,
corn and rye.
• It is an un-aged spirit
6. Pot Distilled
• It is the earliest style of gin, and is traditionally produced by pot
distilling
• Afermented grain mash (malt wine) from barley and or other grains,
then redistilling it with flavoring botanicals to extract the aromatic
compounds.
• Adouble gin can be produced by redistilling the first gin again with
more botanicals.
• Amarked resemblance to whisky. Korenwijn (grain wine) and the
8. Patent Still
• Neutral spirits from a fermented mash or wash using a refluxing still
such as a column still.
• The fermentable base for this spirit may be derived from grain, or
starch. Then is redistilled with juniper berries and other botanicals in
a pot still.
• Most often, the botanicals are suspended in a "gin basket" positioned
within the head of the still, which allows the hot alcoholic vapours to
extract flavoring components from the botanical charge.
• This method yields a gin lighter in flavour than the older pot still
method,
10. Dutch or Holland gin
• Jenever or in the English-speaking world as Dutch gin or
Holland's
• It is the juniper-flavored national and traditional liquor of
the Netherlands and Belgium, from which gin evolved
• There are two types of this GIN i.e. - Oude (old) and Jonge
(young). This is not a matter of aging, but of distilling
techniques.
• Young gin has a neutral taste, like Vodka, with a Slight
aroma of juniper and malt wine.
11. London dry gin
• London gin is obtained exclusively from ethanol of agricultural origin,
• Its flavour is introduced exclusively through the re-distillation.
• In traditional stills of ethanol in the presence of all the natural plant
materials used, the resultant distillate of which is at least 70% abv.
• London gin may not contain added sweetening exceeding 0.1 grams of
sugars per liter of the final product, nor colorants, nor any added
ingredients other than water.
• The term London gin may be supplemented by the term "dry".
15. Magellan
Manufacturer Angeac Distillery
Country of origin France
Introduced 1522
Alcohol by
volume
44%
Color Blue
Flavour
Triple-distillation
of wheat and
spring water,
followed by an
infusion of 11
botanicals