Badachro Gin 57° Storm Strengthis a full flavoured, high strength version of the well know Badachro Gin.
Badachro Gin combines traditional gin botanicals with local gorse blossom, wild myrtle, rose-hip petals and elderflower.
Originally created for cocktail use, it’s becoming rather popular for making a flavour packed and ‘turbo-charged’ gin & tonic.
57% ABV is the traditional ‘navy strength’ benchmark, coming from the days when sailors would test that their rum & gin rations had not been watered-down by pouring some of the ration onto a small pile of gunpowder and lighting it.
If the wet gunpowder burned, then the spirit was 57% abv or over, but if it didn’t… then someone had been ‘at it’! And as if by fate, Badachro Distillery is located close to the 57° North line of latitude.
The gin is extremely smooth with myrtle and juniper dominant at first before a hint of liquorice combines with coriander which then gives way to a fresh, slightly sweet lavender & light citrus finish