Product Description
Adnams from grain to glass, our Copper House gin is distilled from three locally-grown grains: barley, wheat and oats. Adnams Masterbrewer, Fergus Fitzgerald, makes a beer ‘wash’ from these grains which is fermented to around 6% abv without the addition of hops. Our head distiller, John McCarthy, then takes this beer and puts it through a ‘beer stripping’ column which removes all the alcohols to create a ‘low wine’ (around 80 – 85% abv). The ‘low wines’ are subsequently distilled in our hand-made copper rectification columns to create a clean, pure spirit. The spirit is then returned to the copper pot still to be redistilled and infused with six carefully chosen botanicals to impart their delicate aromas and flavours.
Clear, transparent. Clean, zesty nose with orange zest competing with piny juniper for attention. Honest, classic old-school juniper led London dry gin palate but with zingy orange zest sitting above candied ginger, lemon and sage Hibiscus flavours are more obvious in the long lavender, black pepper and pine finish.