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Welcome

• Hello and Welcome to Episode 29

Christmas

• Please support your local or favourite distilleries. Mine are growing by the day !!
• Stockport Gin - their lockdown boxes are amazing as well as their gin filled baubles. Lots of things selling out so be quick. They have loads of gifts from stocking fillers, secret Santa's gifts, to luxury gift boxes, glasses, mugs and much more!
• The Edge Gin - great offers for their gins as well as liqueurs, glasses and chocolates. Lockdown 2 offer and Free Shipping over £40
• Pitwheel Distillery - new Orange and Ginger gin as well as all their old favourites
• The Gower Gin Company - 6 of their gins all in one box, Sloe Gin and festive 3 (Sloe Gin, Bara Brith and Pinwydd)
• Massingberd-Mundy get a £10 voucher back

Review

• Reviews really help the podcast in a given podcast directory. So if you did have a chance to review the podcast I would be most grateful

Weekly Gin Recommendation

Weekly Gin Recommendation - The Only Way Is Gin

• I have been a fan of this brand before it even started to produce gin because Nikki Mendes starred on episode 7 of the show
• I was so excited despite the pandemic and the delays this caused that Nikki finally managed to release her gin.
• I wanted to show my support so I bought two miniatures.
• I really like this idea because it gives you a chance to properly review the gin.
• I was also interested to see if I could taste the elongation of flavour to the poppy seeds.
• The nose of the gin has very delicate aroma of the orange blossom
• The tasting profile starts dry followed by a sweet elongated taste with delicate citrus notes, culminating in heat from the alcohol before going dry at the back end of the profile.
• The taste neat is very delicate and surprisingly sweet. It is even more pleasant when an ice cube was added.
• As usual I tested with Mediterranean tonic and this is where this gin comes into it’s own.
• It is a really pleasant sweet, delicately citrus based G&T and one of those bottles that you can always count on to give to friends or family or have a cheeky G&T yourself.
• I would definitely serve with pink grapefruit and plenty of ice as I think this would take the flavour profile to a whole new level. It is a bit like adding blueberries to Brockmans
• This gin is smooth enough for a dry martini but would not work in my opinion
• I could however see this in an Expresso Martini or a Pornstar Martini and I really like the clover club or bramble serves on the website.
• If you are looking for a staple gin for G&T with potential for cocktails then this is the gin for you.
• It is definitely being added to my long list of gin wants.

Are you Up for a Christmas Day Challenge ?

• You also have two weeks to work out what your Christmas cocktail is going to be
• There have been some great ones on Instagram
• I have been looking round for inspiration to see what you could go for
• Why should I have a Christmas cocktail ?
• I had never thought of this until Tammy from @forcocktailsake mentioned this two weeks ago. Her and her Mum have always come up with a new cocktail for each dinner party
• That is amazing !!
• So I thought what a good idea for Christmas and what inspiration.
• The reason I like the idea of coming up with one yourself is because you can make it specific to represent you and your family.

The Scene On Christmas Day

• So picture it now
• It is Christmas day
• The air outside is cold and crisp and you go out to get ready for festivities
• You look into the freeze and see your box where you have your garnishes for your cocktails
• You open the fridge and look at that special mixture you are going to add to your cocktail or that fruit that you are going to muddle (mix into the shaker like a pestle and mortar).
• You get excited. No one in the family is going to expect a cocktail dedicated to them
• Then a few hours later everyone is dressed up in their Christmas finest and arriving at your door. Well the two families you are allowed to meet up with anyway.
• They come in and then you announce. Today we are going to have the cocktail name you have made up
• You feel so proud
• Everyone looks at you with amazement and slight apprehension
• You serve it to them. It is a triumph.
• And all because the lady loves milk tray
• Sorry showing my age
• And all because you got the idea from some bloke on The Gin Ignite podcast

So why am I leaving it two weeks before ?

• Because you have the fun part trying the cocktail out to perfect it !!!
• Not Adventurous ?
• So before I get all excited about what you can do what happens if you are not adventurous ?

Three options

1. Serve some bubbly ignore this episode !!
2. Lookup a cocktail you fancy and make that from the recipe
3. Follow my chosen Christmas recipe

My Christmas Cocktail

• So I have already chosen my cocktail. I have chosen it because it is easy to make and the ingredients are really accessible. It also is not alcohol heavy like I tend to enjoy my cocktails to make sure I account for other people in my family.
• To make it you need to add the following to a shaker:-
• Optional muddle a strawberry in the shaker
• Add ice
• 50ml pink gin (Gordons Pink is cheap and easy to get hold of if you need to buy one)
• 25ml Elderflower Liqueur (cheap in a lot of supermarkets. Mine came from Sainsbury’s)
• 15ml Sugar Syrup
• Shake up the contents
• Double filter into a glass
• Top up with Prosecco
• Add a garnish of sliced strawberries held together with a cocktail stick

So think of your cocktail. What will it be ?

• The first big decision is to think about what type of gin you are going to use
• Traditional London Dry, citrus based gin, fruit based gin, Coffee based gin. So many decisions
• Depending on what you have chosen is going to greatly influence what you want to do
• For example a lime base gin you could think of a Mojito or breakfast martini or Tom Collins
• Orange based gin you could do something like a ginger rogers, bronx, claridge or Negroni
• Raspberry based gin you could look at a daiquiri or Guiniveres Sorrow that I posted
• You have got some great gin classics you could try like fluffy duck, gimlet or Singapore sling
• There are the new classics like Pornstar Martini or Expresso martini.
• Go to the distiller who produce the gin you have chosen. Have they got any recommended serves

For those of you thinking but what if I wanted my own spin.

• My advice would be take an existing cocktail with gin or not and then think about what you could add to it.
• For example good editions are a good Vermouth like @thestarlino, a good Elderflower liqueur or Passoa a passionfruit liqueur
• Once you have established what you want your flavours to be and the drink you are basing it on then start exprimenting just like a lab !!
• I would start with roughly the amounts from the recipe you are basing things on
• Then change as you do your tests
• I would love to know what you have come up with whether it is a classic cocktail, the one I am having at Christmas or a brand new one you have created

More inspiration

• Vanessa @nessejay91
• Tammy @forcocktailsake
• Mark @the_wanderingbartender
• Harry @cheshiremobilebars

• Want advice ? I am more than happy to help if I can
• Good luck with your cocktail quests and let me know what you come up with.

Instagram Community Shout Out

• @mumma_loves_gin
• I like the fact that you are a Mumma, mermaid obsessed and enjoy gin. A great combination
• I really liked you recent gin cabinet post. The gin cabinet had everything, It had gin, mermaids and glasses. All things need to taste gin!!
• Love the post I am on the Gin & Tonic diet. I have already lost 3 days. I am definitely switching to the gin & tonic direct over the next few months so I can lose a few days. LOL
• Like the idea of ginfusions especially if you added them to cocktails !! That would make them really interesting
• I like the in dog gins I have only had one. I am definitely switching that to answer my wife when she asks me how many I have had !! LOL
• Very interested on the Hedgerow Elderflower gin post from Chase Distillery
• Finally I really enjoyed the post when you got to 1000 followers and introducing yourself.
• Keep it up.
• I will be adding you to my stories all week.

Get In Contact

• IM me at @ginignite Instagram or @ginignite on Twitter
• E-Mail me at [email protected]
• If you have ideas IM me or e-mail at [email protected]
• If you want to be on the show then IM me or e-mail me at [email protected]

Final Thought

• The thing that I like about the gin community that I have met so far is that no one judges anyone for what they believe, what they look like or who they choose to be.
• The world would be a better place if everyone took that view.
• Grab your drink, toast those you love, enjoy your weekend and whether your decide to party or stay in I will be with you in spirit !!!
• Seriously though enjoy your weekend and I look forward to joining you for another episode next Friday.
• Cheers