Electric Spirit Co. Achroous Gin, 70cl

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Shine PR; the communications agency for food and drink, travel, tourism and hospitality – learn more here. By the way, their bright red bottles are a pun on the name. Achroous means colorless. Tasting notes Launching in July 2018, King’s Hill Gin takes its name from a bet between King Robert the Bruce and Sir William ‘The Crusader’ Sinclair, which took place in the Pentland Hills, where the distillery is based. Made with 12 botanicals including the locally foraged gorse, heather, wild rosehip and elderflower.

We'll draw winners randomly on Wednesday 15th February at midday. You must be 18 to enter, and you have to be able to get to the event in Glasgow. Travel costs and accommodation are not included.Our profound and heartfelt thanks to the judges for their time and consideration, congratulations to all of the exceptional Scottish producers who took part and of course, well done to the always-wonderful The Gin Cooperative for organising the awards in the first place. This feels very special indeed. 🍸 Working with specialist spirits branding agency, Stranger & Stranger, the ‘Social Distillery’ has created something which is the envy of many. They wanted to produce something which depicts the truly stunning scenery found on the island – and what a job they’ve done! As with many of the gins on our list, it uses a mix of foraged and bought-in botanicals. But unlike of the Scottish gins we’ve mentioned here, it features parsnip in the mix! Other notable botanicals inlude wood sorrel, rhubarb and birch sap. The finals scores for The Gin Cooperative Awards 2023 have been submitted, calculated and verified revealing The Gin Cooperative Awards 2023 winners. The competition was once again extremely competitive and close, with many of the entries this year scoring very highly. We were proud to see all gin producing regions of Scotland well represented, which has translated into our finalists and winners. In the end, we narrowed it down to six finalists in each of the main gin style award categories with three eventual winners taking home gold, silver and bronze awards. Well done to all the entries who made it through to the finalists stage and congratulations to the winners.

Like Valhalla, Thought & Memory is multi-award-winning, with gold medals at the International Gin Masters (2018 and 2020) and the San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

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These are then poured into the still, mixing with a blend of filtered water and organic grain neutral spirit, which is pumped in through the bottom of the pot. If you know Electric, you'll know we love Zwift. When we heard about the 2023 UCI Cycling Esports World Championships ‘In Real Life’ Final, we knew we had to be part of it. Launched in 2017, Hills & Harbour is distilled in the southwest Scotland, and is one of the few grain to glass distilleries in the country – meaning they make their own base spirit from scratch. distiller that was named as one of the top ten gins in the entire world at IWSC in 2019. I can only say the praise is more

If you think of a gin that has the smell of a malting floor and added juniper, this is Tobermory. Since I’m a whisky drinker, this is right up my street and Tobermory makes an absolutely excellent Martinez and Negroni that sort of become very Rob Roy and Boulevardier-like due to the whisky notes coming through.”Taking inspiration from Norse mythology, Hrafn Gin is the brainchild of two brothers – Callum and Peter Sim. The award-winning Valhall Gin is their ultra-premium expression and the higher strength sibbling to Thought & Memory – both of which have beautiful sweet mandarin as their signature botanical.