How To Make Flavoured Gin

It’s still one of the trendiest drinks in town, so here’s how to put your stamp on it…

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Making craft gin is easy and fun to do. In fact, for such a nuanced spirit, in its basic form gin is pretty, well, basic: a neutral base spirit, usually made from grain, such as vodka, which is flavoured with botanicals (especially juniper berries). It must be at least 37.5% ABV. Traditional gin-makers extract flavours from botanicals through distillation, and at home you can steep botanicals in a base spirit like vodka to make ‘bathtub gin’ (known as compound gin).