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Welcome

• Hello and Welcome to Episode 37
• By far the biggest bit of news this week is still the news that Paul has left his job of 17 years.
• I am still so over the moon for him. I am also suitably impressed at their new website. It is really slick and really improves the navigation. If you have a moment why not go on and have a look.
• Sip and Share have grown past 200 members. So proud of you Kate.
• I will be going live on YouTube this time not this Friday but next Friday 19th February at 20:00. I am going to be talking with Tristan from Massingberd-Mundy all about Marie Jeanne.
• He is my instagram should this week.

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 Recommendatio Dulwich gin

• I have always been a big fan of dill. Even when I had to chop a lot of it to add to Gravalax when I worked in Munich.
• Nose - vague smell of dill. Not the normal in your face
• Flavour profile dry slight delay then a slight acidic tone follow by a smoothness full of dill, which almost dances on your tongue and then finally you get a bit of heat from the alcohol
• I quite like it as a sipping gin. Could really see it working with a gravalax.
• With tonic, usual Mediterranean get dryness and a much clearer dill taste.
• Absolutely desperate to try this as a dirty martini. Also keen to finally try some bourbon as I think it might go very well with this. Such a fun flavour. Will keep you posted on other cocktails
• It has a proud place on my gin shelf. Thank you to The Botanical Trading Company.

The sophistication of the Daiquiri

• Daiquiri = Sophistication, Suarve & Panache
• Ernest Hemingway allegedly had 15 in a night. I struggle to do 4 cocktails if I am lucky before I got to sleep !!

Where did it come from ?

• Jennings Stockton Cox from the iron mines of Daiquiri in Cuba. Came up because ran out of gin ! That was very careless that would not happen to you or me.
• John F Kennedy sipped Daiquiris after beating Nixon in 1960’s
• Traditional recipe with rum I am always keen to find a good gin. This week I tried it with Rhamanta and it was really nice.
• Basic recipe 2 parts alcohol, 1 part citrus and 1/2 part sugar
• Sometime I use sugar syrup but I have just recently invested into the wide plethora of Monin syrups so I tend to use. I have got flavours from Strawberry to honey to hibiscus
• This basic recipe kind of works really for any spirit but I think it work for gin really well. These days I am a bit of a lime fan so I would probably try and mix it to that but you could easily go down the orange or the lemon route and find a suitably well chosen gin.

Gins to try it with

• Dulwich with a bit of a dill vibe
• Love with Rhamanta
• Very interested to try with Stockport Pink Edition or Twist of Lime Edition
• Would love to try with Lind and Lime
• Great with Pear or L’Orange gin from The Edge Gin
• Thunderflower for that liquorice kind of flavour
• LAW gin from Ibiza for lots of interest flavours
• Like all cocktails the fun is adding things to them or making them better by adding further alcohol

Instagram Community Shout Out

@tristan.jorgensen_

• My shoutout this week is to someone very special. He is the first real distiller that I met.
• I did my first live with him and I am going to my first YouTube live with him too.
• He is one of those people that amazes you and pushes you. He wanted to use single malt whiskey in our first meeting and I can’t tell you what he has asked for in the live on YouTube but it has really got me out of my comfort zone in a good way.
• Started distilling on the island of Isla. Moved round various places and ended up at Massingberd Mundy
• Produced two great gins. Burrell’s and Marie Jeanne
• I love his recent pictures of the snow
• I always love his posts about Angelica, his still.
• He did a post recently where he had just finished a batch of the Marie Jeanne gin and had to add in that it had been named no.1 gin at the craft gin club. Does not surprise me.
• Great post with Paul Burrell holding a bottle of Burrell’s
• Nice picture showing Tristan and the sloes he collected whilst on the telly on BBC Countryfile. Is he making Sloe gin ? Can I get in on a bottle ?
• I also really like the post where he is standing next to Charles Burrell

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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