Gin the Mood: 50 gin cocktail recipes that are just the ticket

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How does your pension compare to the average saver's pot - and will you get the retirement you want? Sipsmith always create quality products and I expect this to be no different. Full disclaimer, mine is on its way from Booktopia as we speak! O'Neal has a clear entrepreneurial flair but it was her mum's death that really pushed her to start her own business.

Can you give an example of a bit of the history that you particularly like that people might not know about? Meehan's Bartender Manual" is a must-have for anyone looking to open a bar and run their own program, as well as any other industry enthusiasts, according to The Roosevelt Room's Lavenue. Written by Jim Meehan, a bartender, journalist, proprietor, and founder of NYC’s famed Please Don’t Tell, the book covers topics such as bar design and functionality, space planning, building rounds of drinks, and more. You can still see it in the street names. In Camden, there’s Juniper Crescent. So there are remnants in today’s London—even though there’s no hawker on the side of the street flinging gin at you as you walk past.Let’s go on to book number three, which is The Curious Bartender’s Gin Palace. I take it this is a bartender’s perspective on gin?

He articulates very well how juniper was used from a medicinal perspective. There was this growth in myth and folklore through people like Pepys—and other writers of that time referencing their plights, whether it was gout or colic. Gin history has always fascinated me and this book brings the whole story of gin and its connection to London to life.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. We provide such an incredible afternoon that when you look at it from a value side and what people are leaving with I think you get way more value than what you charge. Its a luxury experience,' she says.

I think of gin, or a gin and tonic, as the most traditionally English drink imaginable. But, like so many great things, it actually came from the Low Countries. Is that right? Yes, it reminds you of a place. A good example of this is St. George’s Terroir Gin, which is Californian gin. It’s very well-crafted. The flavours are deliberately reminiscent of a Californian forest on a sun-drenched afternoon. So you get that Douglas fir, bay laurel, warming sun sensation coming through in each and every sip. Nepotism aside, this book makes a change from many of the gin books available. They begin the story with the decline of the gin in the late 1950s before moving on to the how’s and why’s of the gin renaissance. He doesn’t approach it as a list book—there are lots of list books out there. What Tristan does really well is he explains the process and the production and the story behind the gins. That’s what’s so engaging about it. You’re not just hearing someone’s opinion on a tasting note—as if you were reading a book on the 100 best wines or whatever it might be. He goes: ‘this is what I think about the taste but here’s a load more information so that you can understand the human aspect of the distillery, the production, the provenance.’ He paints a much wider picture in that way. He’s doing the tasting notes of the tonic water by themselves but there’s an implied pairing that’s a lot more general. I actually think that rule of thumb is more helpful than saying, ‘use Schweppes with Gordons and use this with that.’ It’s much more, ‘if you like that tonic, then this is the kind of gin that you might opt for.’ And vice versa.

The Gin Dictionary / by David T. Smith

During their travels, the authors uncovered the unusual botanicals, base spirits and different techniques that are employed in various parts of the world, with gins from over 50 countries featured.