Electric Spirit Co. Achroous Gin, 70cl

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Created by James Porteous, Achroous Gin has built a strong reputation as an exceptional Scottish Gin, culminating in winning double gold at the prestigious San Fransisco World Spirits Competition. Outstanding Contribution to Scottish Gin Award 2023 Winner is: Martin Murray, Dunnet Bay Distillers Verdant Dry Gin is distilled in a 500 litre iStill called Little Eddie using botanicals including lemon peel, bitter orange, grains of paradise and liquorice.

This Saturday, EventScotland are hosting riders from the British Cycling team at Glasgow's Engine Works, where they'll vie for the coveted rainbow jersey as part of the 2023 UCI Cycling Esports World Championships live and in person, bridging the gap between the real-world physical effort of riders and the virtual race on Zwift. Electric is delighted to be joining as the IRL Final official drinks partner. Where Valhalla is a beautiful sipping gin, Thought & Memory is stunning as a longer drink – and it makes a mean G&T. There is no BS here and with that I would opt for a no BS Negroni that puts a big cheeky grin on my face!”According to EU guidelines what is minimum amount of alcohol a gin can have to be officially classified as gin?

Julian Vallis says:“Tobermory throws the notion of a traditional gin out the window and just lets the malty base shine through with absolutely no effort to hide the fact this comes from a whisky distillery. While the original Caorunn Gin is one of Scotland’s best known and loved gins, it’s the recently launched Caorunn Raspberry that The Gin Shelf has selected as one of his top Scottish gins. Like Valhalla, Thought & Memory is multi-award-winning, with gold medals at the International Gin Masters (2018 and 2020) and the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. James has moved from the pokey room and now shares a production space with the team from Port of Leith Distillery (he also worked with them to develop their gin, Lind and Lime) – and he now distils Achroous on a 500L still. The success of the gin means it’s now available across the UK and they hope to be exporting soon as well.We bagged the gold in both the Scottish Dry and Consumer categories, and silver for our G&T, which is phenomenal, but that fourth medal is the cherry on the cake. At the time of launch in 2015, the gin market was already taking off, and James wanted to do his own take on a London Dry style with a couple of more unusual botanicals that bring something special – fennel seed and Sichuan peppercorn. He discovered these two botanicals marry together really well, and the aroma from the peppercorns gives the gin this beautiful big woody, floral aroma. Flavor: Sweet hints of Sezchuan peppercorn throughout, with a lot of pepperiness— including some hints of bell pepper and Fresno chile (no heat, just the flavor). Mid-palate, fennel, chewy licorice and a bit more cubeb. Late, it’s still peppery but with an herbaceous juniper note.

complex nose with a zingy sichuan peppercorn and fruity fennel seed palate that has real staying power Outstanding Contribution to Scottish Gin Award is given to a brand, business or individual who has had a positive and tangible impact on the Scottish Gin category. The winner of this award is selected by The Gin Cooperative.Launching in July 2018, King’s Hill Gin takes its name from a bet between King Robert the Bruce and Sir William ‘The Crusader’ Sinclair, which took place in the Pentland Hills, where the distillery is based. Made with 12 botanicals including the locally foraged gorse, heather, wild rosehip and elderflower. Barra natives, Michael and Katie Morrison founded Isle of Barra Distillers in 2017. Originally contract distilled, the husband and wife team realised their dream of bringing distilling to their remote and beautiful island home in 2019.

Taking inspiration from Norse mythology, Hrafn Gin is the brainchild of two brothers – Callum and Peter Sim. The award-winning Valhall Gin is their ultra-premium expression and the higher strength sibbling to Thought & Memory – both of which have beautiful sweet mandarin as their signature botanical. First off, all seven of the botanicals are weighed out according to the recipe. the ingredients in Achroous are all added at the same time, so are weighed out together. distiller that was named as one of the top ten gins in the entire world at IWSC in 2019. I can only say the praise is more Julian Vallis says:“I like Achroous because of it breaking the mould by being a ‘sessionable’ gin with an Old Tom character, despite it having no added sugar.Launching their first gin in August 2019, Tobermory Distillery can draw on over 200 years of distilling experience. Established in 1798, the distillery is famous for its whisky and cleverly marry this history into their gin, with a dash of new make spirit from their whisky stills added to the still before distillation, almost as a ‘liquid botanical’. Once again, every judge was provided a detailed and in-depth judges guide with advice and tips for judging each element of the entries and general advice, ensuring each judge scored the entries based on the same guidance. A heartfelt thanks once again to our amazing judging panel for all their time, effort and hard work. Our profound and heartfelt thanks to the judges for their time and consideration, congratulations to all of the exceptional Scottish producers who took part and of course, well done to the always-wonderful The Gin Cooperative for organising the awards in the first place. This feels very special indeed. 🍸