Season 5: Alcohol and Friends- Gin: Juniper in the Limelight

Gin is an especially botanical beverage, it's major selling point boasting the use of Juniper to make for a tasty beverage.  So where did it come from, and how did the famous Gin and Tonic come about?  Join us today as we talk about Gin, a European beverage infused with the taste of a strange conifer.

Juniper berries aren't really berries.  Shocking I know.  So what are they, and why do we use them in a beverage?  Well their history makes them not as suprising a choice as you would think.  And much like absinthe, came about relatively recently in the history of alcohol.  Join us this week as we talk about a story of the Dutch, the British, and a whole lotta juniper, to get our hands dirty in the story about Gin.

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