Ableforth's Bathtub Gin - Old Tom 50cl

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Nowadays, bathtub gin is made and sold for cultural nostalgia and for a fun cooking project. You can still make one at home or buy a commercial brand that manufactures it as a specialty spirit. In his 1937 book “ Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ‘Em,” Stanley Clisby Arthur claims the name comes from England when an old tom cat fell into a vat of gin. Distiller Joseph Boord claimed the name came from a man named Tom who had put in a good many years at Boord’s distillery. The idea behind aging the gin is that we wanted to re-create what would have happened 150 years ago,” Seestedt said. “Generally, spirits weren’t immediately bottled like they are today. Any time the gin would have been shipped it would have been kept in cooperage for some amount of time.” The difference between Bathtub Gin and Gin is that for making Bathtub Gin, you add the botanicals to an already distilled spirit. For traditional gin, the infusion of botanicals happens during distillation.

Most brands producing compound gin do not hide their production method. So by looking at the label, you will find the desired information 99% of the time. Also, because not all Bathtub Gin is of low quality, a few brands aim to give this type a better image: Best Bathtub Gins Store for a few more days to a couple of weeks to let sediments settle and allow the flavor to mature. Step 8 I think it has potential, but I’m just not quite sure its there. Mad Scientist or not, there’s a lot of good alternatives out there which I think do it a bit better. Rhubarb Old Tom can be enjoyed with lemon tonic, Indian tonic, ginger ale, lemonade, or soda water. For a special touch, add Rhubarb Old Tom to fizz. As it is a very fruity and zingy gin, it can be paired with almost anything. Garnish with orange peel or berries.The ingredients and flavors come together nicely, and if it wouldn't state so prominently that this is a Bathtub Gin, you probably would not notice.

Thankfully for Bathtub Gin, the quality of the ingredients are greatly superior. Here the gin is infused with six botanicals: juniper, coriander, orange peel, cinnamon, cloves and cardamom, and the length of the compounding period is controlled entirely by periodic sampling at the Master of Malt HQ in Tunbridge Wells. The final spirit is bottled at 43.3% ABV and has a slight hue caused by the infusion process.Old Tom gin is often considered a bridge between gin’s original form, genever, and the London dry styles we know and love today. This is believed for two reasons: Old Tom appeared chronologically after genever did, and Old Tom gin is drier than genever but sweeter than London dry. To keep things covert, pubs would provide gin through metal tubing that ran to the outside of the building. These gin tubes could be found by looking out for cat-shaped plaques mounted on the exterior of the pubs. Individuals would then be served a measure of gin through the tube by putting money in a slot under the cat’s paw. It's also worth mentioning that these homemade gin creations were often not only of questionable taste but even posed a health risk. Poorly produced alcohol contains toxins, which can cause all sorts of unwanted side effects and consequences ranging from severe headaches to losing eyesight to death. Is Bathtub Gin good? The LIVE virtual tastings are carried out in the last week of the month. Please keep an eye on our socials for confirmed dates! But that being said, Professor Cornelius Ampleforth’s Bathtub Old Tom Gin feels a bit disjointed, the sweetening aside from the botanicals, the botanicals not really tightly wound or integrated. It has some good moments, but the finish seems a little off. It certainly makes a good Martinez and I would wholeheartedly endorse it as a good mixing gin. But I’m not sure that the bathtub technique or botanical selection seems to lend itself to the Old Tom style in this instance. Overall

This product is wrapped in brown paper and solely named after the category. The spirit is produced by Ableforth Spirits, who did a beautiful job with this compound gin. Tasting notes During prohibition, many people tried to supply others with homemade liquor. People had no access to distilleries and had to produce their alcohol or moonshine at home secretly.Let steep in a cool dark place for 24 hours. After steeping, open the lid and taste the gin if it is all ready to your liking. If you want to make one flavor stand out, add more of that desired ingredient, then close the jar and steep for another 12 hours.

The thing with Bathtub Gin is that you make it exclusively by adding botanicals AFTER distillation to a cheap. Producers add them to a cheap grain of alcohol and let them infuse for a while. Using pestle and mortar, grind together juniper berries, cardamom pod, and coriander seeds. Do not grind them to a pulp. Just enough to release flavor. Step 3 It was called bathtub gin because the bottles they were using were too large to fit in the kitchen sink. And so, they would place the containers in the bathtub and fill them up with tap water. They added water to the mix to cut the cheap, low-quality alcohol, which had an unpleasant taste and was high percentage ABV.It's all natural - Rhubarb Old Tom is hand-crafted on the Scottish Orkney Islands in micro batches using many local and Scottish botanicals by small family run business, Orkney Gin Company. We don't use any flavourings, colourings or presevatives. PROVENANCE - Provenance in our products is key to flavour. At Boatyard we only use organically sourced ingredients such as the juniper in our gin that comes from Arezzo in Tuscany. We also use local Fermanagh honey for natural sweetness.