In September, I had the opportunity to attend GinWorld, a week-long series of gin-related events in St Louis, Missouri. Why St. Louis, you ask? That’s where Natasha Bahrami, a.k.a. @thegingirl lives and runs a gin bar , offering hundreds of gins, tastings, and educational seminars. Her love and knowledge of …
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Kemah, Texas, it’s a suburb (?) of Galveston – a small bayside town with lots of strip shopping centers and fried fish restaurants. Of course it’s also home to marinas that host both small and breathtakingly expensive boats, very close to the …
Recently, I was told Leandra, the Sales and Marketing Manager for Corgi Spirits, was in town introducing a selection of gins to Houston-area bars. I reached out to Leandra, and inadvertently muscled my way into a tasting with the bar manager at Axelrad. (If you haven’t been to Axelrad, fix …
Jensen’s Gin has been on my radar for quite some time, but I’ve recently been drinking it more frequently and truly appreciating what does – and maybe more what doesn’t – go into this balanced gin. Inspired by vintage gins- interestingly discovered while working in Japan – Christian Jensen aimed …
Barrel aged gin? What the heck, Ginerations? I thought you just told us that gin was clear and smelled of juniper and other lovely botanicals…now you’re telling me gin can be…brown?? And sweet, like a bourbon? You bet it can. Barrel aged gin is part of the new “loosey-goosey – …