Mulberry Mango Gin & Gin Recipe Testing
My boss at the Shakespeare Distillery gave me the opportunity to develop my very own gin recipe in the gin school. Needless to say, I...
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A Short History of Gin
PRE 1000 AD- Juniper Berries Our short history of gin becomes with gin’s mandatory ingredient: juniper berries. In Egyptian times juniper berries were used as...
How My YouTube Subscriber Hired Me
The most common way to make money on YouTube is to get your channel monetized. This requires 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time...
Trying to Make Amaretto Disaronno
My boss, Simon, at the Shakespeare distillery really likes limoncello and amaretto. He tasked me with trying to come up with a recipe for both...
One Day Living In A Pub
This blog and on my YouTube channel are a way for me to document my journey as a distiller. Sometimes I wish I had taken...
Developing a Limoncello Liqueur Recipe
Their sunshine yellow colour draws me in like no other fruit does. Refreshing and sour, lemons help to elevate almost any dish or drink on...
Making Spiced Rum (Journey Into Rum Part 5)
This is the fifth post in our journey in making Shakespeare Distillery’s first rum. While we were fine-tuning the production process for our white rum...
How to Make and Distil Your Own Gin Recipe
Do you ever wonder how gin recipes are crafted? In today’s post I go over the methodology behind how gin recipes are designed and why...
Making Naturally Purple Gin Liqueur
At the Shakespeare Distillery, our products had a Shakespeare theme in that the ingredients in our gins were inspired by the Tudor period (which was...