Episode 06 - My introduction into small batch gin

Welcome To The Gin Ignite Podcast

Whether you want to party or have a quiet night in gin will ignite

News

• Hello and Welcome to Episode 6.
• Absolutely amazed at the response to the podcast.
• Really pleased that so many people have liked it so much.
• Warners have brought back Strawberry and Rose Gin which looks amazing.

Gin Recommendation

• I am going to talk about small batch gin a bit later but I almost see this gin in the same way
• The potatoes are grown on this farm and then turned into vodka.
• The vodka has 10 botanicals added to it, in their still Ginny, and it becomes Chase GB gin from the Chase Distillery.
• This is a London Dry gin category and is one of the smoothest gins that I have tasted.
• Be careful though it has a very delicate taste and would work with a standard tonic or Fever Tree Mediterranean but not in my opinion with an Elderflower or Blood Orange.
• It may possibly work with a Cucumber tonic.
• It comes with a bow tie and has a proud place on my gin shelf.

Story Time

• Let me let you into a little story
• I have been seeing lots of amazing posts by the pit wheel distillery on Instagram
• So I decided to get in touch and I got such a nice response I thought do you know what I am going to try them
• I am a novice at purchasing small batch gin so I did what I normally do and looked in my local supermarket
• If I can’t find it there I go to my friend Amazon
• Pitwheel gin is not available there either
• So I go directly to their site and sure enough there is gin available

Great Customer Service

• Now here is the best bit I order it and 21:52 on Thursday and get told it will arrive no later than Tuesday
• On Saturday I get the parcel I was expecting on Tuesday.
• Suddenly ordering on the website does not seem to be such a bad idea
• I like over delivering customer service
• In the box are three nicely pack gins in straw and each with their own bubble wrap
• I unwrap them
• Classic Dry Gin
• Original Spiced Gin
• Raspberry and Vanilla Gin, the one I really want to try

Last Saturday Night

• So I sit down on Saturday.
• Just about to go for the raspberry and vanilla gin
• I think to myself do you know what I will dry the classic dry gin
• I suspect it will be like all the other London Dry gins I have tasted in the past so I might as well get the disappointing one out of the way first

Classic Dry Gin

• WOW
• So smooth with almost a very, very slight taste of parma violet.
• If you are looking at getting into small batch gin this is definitely worth a first purchase.

Original Spiced Gin

• OK well that was unexpected so I thought long and hard.
• I still had half of the Fever Tree Mediterranean tonic left
• I decided to go for Original Spice instead of Raspberry and Vanilla.
• Tasted and waited for the spice to hit my palette
• Was thinking it might be the same strength as Opihr gin
• What I got was a beautiful smooth tasting dry gin with a very subtle spice flavour.
• Nothing...