To make a gin product you need to know the exact elements that make a gin in the first place therefore thus can be shown within the design and accurately portray a design.
London Dry Gin – grain alcohol is re-distilled with only natural botanicals and only a minute amount of sweetener can be used after re-distillation. London Dry doesn’t have to be from London.
KEY NOTE FROM FINDING
The actual gin is a lot more malty. Flavors added can be cloves, caraway, ginger, nutmeg. So you’ve got vaguely different style of taste, and you certainly have way more earth notes within it.” You won’t often taste citrus like with London Dry, some distillers don’t even add it at all.
at first my design was going to be a dry gin as it was something that most gins are however I am adding ingredients that are unusual and the add of watermelon acts a citrus flavour. Therefore it could to be a dry gin. therefore I had to look into the other forms of gins. When looking at the gin styles, the one that stood more towards the idea of flavours I had wads DISTILLED GIN.
Distilled Gin – neutral spirit and natural botanicals are re-distilled, but additional natural or artificial flavourings and colourings can be added after distillation.
NATURAL SPIRITS:
Neutral spirits, also known as neutral alcohol, rectified spirits, rectified alcohol or ethyl alcohol is highly concentrated ethanol distilled until it reaches a min. ABV of 95% (190 proof). Neutral spirits can be made from grains, grapes, molasses, potatoes, and other agricultural origins. As the name suggests, neutral spirits are considered neutral in flavour, odour and are colourless. Having said that, there are some slight “flavour” variations among the neutral spirits, leading some to question if neutral spirits are truly flavourless.
NATURAL BOTANICALS
- Coriander. …
- Angelica. …
- Lemon. …
- Orange. …
- Orris Root. …
- Cardamom. …
- Licorice.
SO researching the natural spirit and the natural botanicals that feature within gin I started making mind maps to think of what ingredients would feature well within my gin and how many I should use. There is brand name Bombay Sapphire which inspired my for a lot of the added ingredients within gin. On the left side and the right side they display the added ingredients to this gin, which are displayed in the images below. This is for dry gin as there is no added citrus fruit in the gin specifically.
Mind map of ingredients:
Most Gins contain next to Juniper berry and citrus botanicals such as lemon and bitter orange peel, anise, angelica root and seed, orris root, liquorice root, cinnamon, cubeb, savoury, lime peel, grapefruit peel, dragon eye, saffron, baobab, frankincense, coriander, nutmeg and cassia bark.
MY NATURAL BOTANICS:
JUNIPER BERRIES
ANGELICA SEED
LIME PEEL
CORIANDAR SEEDS
ALMONDS
CASSIA BARK
BAOBOB
ORRIS ROOT
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