Gin is a spirit flavoure with juniper berries. Distilled gin is made by redistilling white grain spirit which has been flavoured with juniper berries. Compound gin is made by flavouring neutral grain spirit with juniper berries without redistilling and can be considered a flavoured vodka.

Trivia about gin

  • From a 1942 movie, No. 2 on Guinness' top 10 film quotes is a line that mentions this liquor
  • The "Old Tom" type of this liquor differs from the London dry type in that it is sweetened
  • It's the liquor you might drink while playing the card game of the same name
  • It's the liquor in a casino cocktail, & often in a martini
  • In this card game, your deadwood can total up to 10 to knock legally
  • A cotton-cleaning device, or a cry in a card game saying you've completed your hand
  • This potent potable's name comes from the Latin for juniper, which is used to flavor it
  • The juniper alcohol of the same name is not necessarily involved in the card game called this rummy
  • New Orleans bartender Henry Ramos invented the Ramos Fizz, made with cream, egg whites, lime juice & this liquor
  • Bombay,Beefeater,Tanqueray
  • The Dutch are famous for genever, this type of liquor
  • In 1909 Elwood Baker invented this game as a variation on what was often called "rum"
  • The Old Tom type of this liquor is perfect for making a Tom Collins
  • It's the liquor you might drink while playing the card game of the same name
  • Tanqueray, Gilbey's & Boodles are famous brands of this spirit often partnered with tonic
  • A card game, or the colorless liquor you might drink while playing it
  • Bombay Sapphire, with Queen Victoria on the label, is a British brand of this liquor
  • Gilbey's,Gordon's,Fleishmann's
  • The Holland type of this liquor first made in Holland is usually drunk straight
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Holland.) Dutch windmills often mill the grain for this juniper berry spirit invented here in Holland
  • ...In a Tom Collins: the dry type of this
  • Traditionally, a pink lady is made with cream, grenadine & this potent potable
  • Asked about her favorite comfort food, Julia quipped, "Red meat &" this liquor that's popularly paired with tonic
  • The popular liqueur known as "sloe" this is made from the fruit of the blackthorn
  • Yo, mixologist... my grandfather wants a Rickey made with the Beefeater brand of this liquor
  • In 1830, rather than become a fourth-generation clergyman, Charles Tanqueray began making this
  • Bartenders use it to make an orange blossom
  • Boodles is a popular brand of the London dry type of this
  • The main ingredients in an Alabama slammer are amaretto, Southern Comfort & the sloe type of this
  • Hendrick's & Boodles
  • Donald L. Coburn's "The ____ Game"