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Gin, Vodka & White

Every gin, vodka & white page in the Academy — written from primary sources, linked to bottles you can actually buy.

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Large red-lidded glass jars of spirit infusing with dried citrus slices and spices on wooden shelves.Level 2Flavored Vodka Citrus, berry, pepper, bison grass: when added flavor turns vodka into a different legal class, and the old Polish tr... A copper pot still with a porthole joined to stainless-steel distillation columns with sight glasses.Level 1 · Start hereVodka High-proof neutral spirit from grain, potato or almost anything: the U.S. and EU rules, the 2020 'no character' chang... An ornate Victorian stone pub frontage carved "Importer of Foreign Wines & Spirits", with arched windows and blue doors.Level 2Old Tom Gin The sweeter, rounder gin of the 18th and 19th centuries: what Old Tom was, why it was sweetened, and which cat storie... The stone buildings of the Royal William Yard, the Royal Navy's former victualling yard at Plymouth, across a harbour of moored boats at sunset.Level 2Navy Strength Gin Gin at about 57 percent, sold on a gunpowder legend. What the number really comes from, what the law says (nothing), ... A market display of lemons, limes and pomelos with a woven basket of limes tipped over.Level 2Contemporary Botanical Gin New Western, modern, craft: gins where juniper still leads but citrus, flowers, cucumber or local plants share the st... Blue ripe and green unripe juniper berries clustered on a needled common juniper branch.Level 1 · Start hereGin Neutral spirit with juniper in charge: how the U.S. and EU define gin, its London history, and the styles from London... A cluster of ripe blue-black sloes among green leaves on a blackthorn branch.Level 2Sloe and Flavored Gin Sloe gin is legally a liqueur, not a gin; flavored gins have their own rules. Hedgerow fruit, sugar levels and what t... A canal in Schiedam, the Dutch jenever-distilling town, with moored barges, brick buildings and a tall windmill.Level 2Genever Gin's malty Dutch and Belgian ancestor: an EU-protected juniper spirit built on moutwijn, where 'oude' and 'jonge' me... A field of green wheat in front of flowering potato rows, with a Cotswold village and a lone oak beyond.Level 2Vodka Base Materials Wheat, rye, barley, potato, grape: what vodka can be made from in U.S. and EU law, what country GIs require, and how ... A copper pot still joined to two glass-windowed rectifying columns, installed behind a pub seating area.Level 2London Dry Gin A method, not a postcode: London gin gets all its flavor in the still, adds nothing but water and a trace of sugar, a... Racks of small new-oak barrels with hand-written fill notes in front of tall windows in a brick-walled craft distillery.Level 2Barrel-Aged Gin Gin rested in oak: legal in the U.S., able to carry an age statement since 2020, but barred from the London Dry label...

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