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Along with craft beer, gin is having a moment. Occasionally the two mix. Wild Beer Co and Northern Monk are among the breweries eyeing up distilleries and making spirits
When life gives you preserved Moroccan lemons… make gin, as the adage sort of went. Gin, it’s no secret, has exploded alongside craft beer in the last five years. There’s an astonishing range of gin available now, but the ones we’re interested in are those with meaningful links to breweries. There’s a clear overlap: they’re both booze after all, but with an increasing interest in provenance and of local ingredients then it's no surprise the two go hand-in-hand. And no one ever pretended that beer lovers only drink beer.
When Wild Beer Company announced they were not only making gin but basing it on one of our favourite ever beers from them, we had to stock it. Wild Beer Co make some of the country's most exciting beers, and specialise in barrel ageing beers and using wild yeasts (some of it harvested from orchards around its Somerset brewery). So we were pretty sure this gin would be unusual. The ‘Wild Spirit’ range of two gins and ‘Spirit of Pogo’ were released at the beginning of 2018. Sleeping Lemons Gin takes inspiration from the brewery’s spritzy Sleeping Lemons beer that uses preserved Moroccan lemons. In the gin, they follow the sherbert tang of the this alongside lemongrass, lemon verbena and lemon peel as botanicals. Now just imagine that in a G&T!
Schnoodlepip Gin also takes one of its most loved beers, a red wine barrel-aged sour saison brewed with pink peppercorns, hibiscus and passion fruit (yes!), and have taken that and added it into the gin. This collaboration with Psychopomp in Bristol lively passion fruit, delicate hibiscus and a whiff of pink peppercorns to chase.
Wild Beer Co is not the only brewery that has started distilling grain. Leeds brewery Northern Monk teamed up with Manchester distillery Zymurgorium. Together they produced Cahokia, new world hop gin with a delightfully fruity punch, down to, in no small part, to the addition of, deep breath, juniper, mango, pineapple, tangerine, vanilla, lime, coffee, orris root and Mexican royal blue agave.
But some gins we just stock because we love them. Smokehouse Distillery in Harrogate (our hometown) is an example. Infusing fresh botanicals from Harlow Carr, the Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden, Harrogate, with lavender and pink grapefruit, this is the perfect gin with Mediterranean Fever Tree tonic and a slice of peeled cucumber. When life gives you grapefruit, as the adage never went...
Father’s Day, 19th June 2022, is the special date in the calendar when we celebrate and give a nod to the Dads in our lives. It’s an excuse to spoil them with a little something to say thank you for being awesome. If you’re looking for inspiration for a craft beer-loving Dad, then check out our top 7 Father’s Day beer gifts.
Every year, Beer Hawk releases a lineup of limited edition craft beer mixed cases for the holiday season. This year's lineup of festive Christmas beer gifts is guaranteed to put a smile on everyone’s face.
Remember the childhood excitement of opening a new door on your advent calendar every day in the run up to Christmas? It gave each day a little sparkle of festive magic, even though those tiny chocolates behind the doors were always a bit rubbish. How would you like to recapture that childhood magic, but with bottles of delicious beer instead of powdery chocolate? Sounds amazing, right? In that case, you need to get your hands on our Craft Beer Advent Calendar.
Pairing beer and food together isn’t all rules and science. That would make for a terribly boring dinner party! Instead, it’s the art of taking a good beer, some good food and partnering them together to make something even better. It’s the adventure of discovering what works, what doesn’t and what you like. It’s you taking a bite, taking a sip and then declaring your undying love for that imperial stout and chocolate cake.
Barrel-ageing beers is not a new thing, but it is getting more and more popular, and has probably never been as inventive. Adrian Tierney-Jones explores the new wave of ageing beer in wood
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