When is a gin not a gin?
The clue is really in the name. If you look up ‘gin’ online in the Oxford dictionaries it will tell you that it is a ‘a clear alcoholic spirit distilled from grain or malt and flavoured with juniper berries.’ The word gin itself comes from the Dutch genever, and the...
Read all about Jacqson Gin as published in The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Craft distilleries are springing up just about everywhere. Even in spare bedrooms in Huddersfield. Part-time music teacher Dr Jacqueline Dumigan, for example, is enjoying an unexpected but satisfying new career as a distiller, operating out of her daughter Natasha’s...
One garnish or two? Or the whole fruit salad?
Apparently we’re all now looking for the perfect “serve” for our gin. What mixer should we use and what garnish to accompany? Is this a matter of taste or aesthetics I often wonder, or a mixture of both? Well, we all like our food to look nice as well as taste nice...