The rise of craft gin in the UK has been a wonderful thing to witness. Walk through the aisles of your local supermarket today and you’ll see shelves dedicated to a still-rising swell of British gins, all boasting their own unique flavour characteristics and stories. But with so many to choose from, where do you start if you’re looking for a good bottle of gin?
The new wave of craft gins are all made using different methods and have vastly different spectrums of flavour and aroma. It’s tough for a gin to stand out among the crowd these days, but Bathtub Gin, with its unique production method and iconic paper packaging, has been a consistent top performer of the gin-aissance. Since arriving on shelves in 2011, Bathtub Gin has scooped dozens of medals including gold medals over multiple years at the International Wine & Spirit Competition, the World Gin Awards and the Gin Masters.
Bathtub Gin was founded in 2011 by three friends who set out to create a bolder and more vibrant tasting gin than any other. In the pursuit of their goal they turned to the history books and that’s where they came across a long-forgotten technique that would ultimately inspire Bathtub Gin. The name itself harks back to the prohibition-era United States, where would-be gin makers without access to a distillery learned that they could cold infuse botanicals into spirits to create ‘bathtub gins’. This technique was often used to cover up the flavour of poor quality neutral grain spirit and thus it fell out of favour, but Bathtub Gin’s innovation is that it combines this method with the best modern gin-making techniques in a two-step production process. The result? A gin super-charged with fresh botanical flavour.
