Gin is known as Vodkas spunky cousin. Also known as vodka with flavor that sometimes bites you!

The basics of gin are simple yet complex. Gin is essentially Vodka with botanical elements. This makes each gin different than the next. Gin can also be used in the majority of vodka based cocktails. Giving new flavour explosions to your taste buds. 

Gin originally started as medicine, such as a few other spirits. It was believed that juniper berries helped with digestion, gastrointestinal infections, anti-inflammatory, cancer, and other illnesses. Juniper berries were also used for cooking and to make syrups. It was believed that using alcohol to distill the juniper berries would release the healing effects of said berries. This, in turn, created Gin. It became popular in the Netherlands and other areas, as people believed it helped them from these many illnesses. This led to it being spread around Europe where it was taken as an elixir that would be prescribed to you.

As it became more popular, it rapidly stopped being used as a medicine and started being used as a way to enjoy the night. Once in England, it became known as Dutch Courage. Over the years it became cheaper to produce, rules became more relaxed for distilleries, and gin became the drink of the lower class society. In the 1700s new laws were passed making it more illegal to distill gin resulting in bad-quality gins. This was known as rotgin. As time passed, people worked with gin to improve it back to its normal quality, today being known as London Dry Gin. It was distilled to be refined and clean.

London Dry gin is known for being well, dry, made with botanicals, and clear in color. With the use of juniper berries, coriander seeds, roots, and citrus peels. 

In Compound Gins, flavors are added after distilling the gin, whereas in a London dry, the flavor is added with the distillation process.