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…

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).