Now a 4:th Gin in the Batchtub collection have been released!!!
Now a 4:th Gin in the Batchtub collection have been released!!!
As Gin was the predominant drink in the 1920s, many variations were created by mixing cheap grain alcohol with water and flavorings and other agents, such as juniper berry juice and glycerin.
In addition, mixing grain alcohol, water, and flavorings in vessels large enough to supply commercial users had to be small enough for the operation to go undetected by the police.
The common metal bathtub in use at the time would have been ideal as would have been a ceramic bathtub, hence the name, 'bathtub gin'. However, since distillation is boiling and condensation in a closed apparatus and cannot be accomplished in an open vessel such as a bathtub, stories of distilled alcoholic products produced in an open bathtub are likely untrue.
In 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment was implemented in the US, outlawing the production, sale and consumption of alcohol.
However, the war was widely flouted, and illicit production was rife. In particular, gin was increasingly made at home or in secret locations and became known as “bathtub gin”.
The prevalence of speakeasies was glamorous flapper-wearing party-goers went for a good time, also meant that illicit gin was enjoyed in an array of now iconic cocktails. Bartenders experimented with cocktails in order to mask the unpleasant taste of some illicitly made spirits.
Today we have much better quality of the alcohol it is made of and the taste becomes a culmination of a vision to recreate the genuine spirit of clandestine bootleggers heritage, with contemporary craftsmanship and top notch botanical ingredients.
Bootlegger distillation.
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