This Podcast Explores the things that help define London and the British and today's subject in the British culture series is Gin

We will look at the facts, its history, the types of gin how to drink and where to drink it, and what to drink it with.

Lets start by getting some affirmations about Gin before we deal with some of its unfavourable side effects.

• Hawkey – MASH – I'll stick to gin – Champagne is just ginger ale that know someone
• Winston Churchill – The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives and minds than all the doctors in the Empire
• Humphrey Bogart -Casablanca – Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world – she walks into mine

Ginastics – a sport where you learn the agility and co-ordination of pouring and drinking a juniper-based spirit.

So what is Gin

Both gin and vodka are made from neutral grain spirits (like rye, barley, wheat, corn) but British gin use Barley - gets steeped/soaked with botanicals (fancy word for dried herbs, roots, and citrus peels) and redistilled. So you might sip a gin and taste juniper Whereas vodka you may taste the notes of the grain