Brockmans Gin

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Brockmans have deliberately spent time making sure their gin is smooth enough to appreciate neat or over ice making it the perfect spirit lovers gin.

Alcoholic spirits originally found their place as a “cure all’ in medieval Europe. Gin was the next step, incorporating the medical benefits held in plants. Various botanical elements were thought to have different health giving properties most notably in the case of gin, juniper. When mixed with spiritus alcohol a rudimentary medicine was formed and became popular all over the continent.

In the early days of distillation it was only the highly educated that knew the key to the production of the “water of life” and thus the skill moved predominantly with learned monks and healers.

Gin took hold particularly in the Netherlands where it was called Genever, which is the Dutch word for juniper. This is where we get the name as jenever was eventually anglicised to gin. Holland was one of the predominant players in the early spice trade so it wasn’t a big leap to start experimenting with herbology and distillation out of which gin was born.