Genever
Origin: Holland
Ingredients: malt wine (malted barley, wheat, corn, and rye)
Process: Pot double- or triple-distill at low proof, distill once more with juniper to about 48% ABV.
A few genevers from Holland and Belgium are distilled directly from juniper berries.
London Dry Gin
Origin: England
Ingredients: grain (corn, barley, malt, wheat, or rye), juniper berries, botanicals
Process: Column distill to 90 or 94% ABV, pot distill with juniper and botanicals, dilute, bottle. Generally, don't age. For some high quality gins juniper and botanicals go in a chamber in the still which the vapor passes through before condensation.
Plymouth Gin
Origin: Plymouth, England
Process: Copper pot distill.
Originally the local gin style of the English Channel port of Plymouth, now produced only by Plymouth, Coates < Co., which also controls the rights to the term Plymouth Gin.
Origin: Holland
Ingredients: malt wine (malted barley, wheat, corn, and rye)
Process: Pot double- or triple-distill at low proof, distill once more with juniper to about 48% ABV.
A few genevers from Holland and Belgium are distilled directly from juniper berries.
London Dry Gin
Origin: England
Ingredients: grain (corn, barley, malt, wheat, or rye), juniper berries, botanicals
Process: Column distill to 90 or 94% ABV, pot distill with juniper and botanicals, dilute, bottle. Generally, don't age. For some high quality gins juniper and botanicals go in a chamber in the still which the vapor passes through before condensation.
Plymouth Gin
Origin: Plymouth, England
Process: Copper pot distill.
Originally the local gin style of the English Channel port of Plymouth, now produced only by Plymouth, Coates < Co., which also controls the rights to the term Plymouth Gin.
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