Big Book of Gin: How to drink and enjoy gin

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Enter Dan Jones, bestselling gin author and cocktail enthusiast, who will make you love this tasty drink even more. It is illustrated throughout with beautiful gin-related imagery sourced from the British Library collection. trata de gins (ok), 10% tônicas (ok), 10% técnica de bar (básico e desnecessário, um tutorial de YouTube resolve) e 70% receitas básicas e simples que se encontra em qualquer lugar. It covers both distilling and cold compounding, providing advice on equipment and detailing step-by-step processes, whilst discussing a wide variety of gin production issues.

But where the growth is happening and the interest is happening and the rise is happening is absolutely all in this craft sector. You can track it to South America, and then it was propagated in Indonesia predominantly by the Dutch, and then into Africa. I think it’s also interesting–I mean, interesting for someone like me, who’s perhaps a little bit obsessive about it—since the whole ‘what kind of sugar do you have? I think Richard’s ability to present history in an engaging way makes it the go-to as a reference for the history.

Starting with the history of gin, Dan reveals how the first distilleries opened in the UK in the 1600s, explains the nuts and bolts of making the beverage, as well as all the different trends it has experienced. The author of this effervescent little history traces modern gins origins (as the Dutch drink genever) and its subsequent use for medicinal purposes and in the military (Dutch courage), and its demonisation during the London gin panic. Quando você compra um livro desse preço e desse ranho com nome de "Grande livro dos Gins" você espera se aprofundar no assunto. It comes as no surprise then that gin has been having a 'ginaissance', in the last decade, with more bottles of the gin being sold than ever before.

When you read his whisky books, you are transfixed and taken aback by the poetry and the understanding.

Let’s go on to your next book, The Book of Gin: A Spirited World History from Alchemists’ Stills and Colonial Outposts to Gin Palaces, Bathtub Gin, and Artisanal Cocktails (2011) by Richard Barnett . A huge part of the resurgence in recent years has been, to be honest with you, about connecting with people, products, and provenance. Gin has always been a British thing in that it was the Brits’ attempt to make their own version of jenever. By World War I, and even as late on as World War II, when the colonial era was coming to an end, it was in Indonesia that most of the plants had been propagated from their origin in south America.