Whitley Neill Banana & Guava Gin 70cl

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Strain the liquid to remove the bananas, making sure to squeeze out every drop of vermouth. Pour the vermouth into a sterilised bottle. The key to the best-tasting DIY flavoured gin is using quality, fresh (and ideally, seasonal) produce. That’s not completely untrue - there is a type of gin called “compound gin” that you can make in your kitchen with a bottle of vodka and whatever botanicals you feel like adding. But for an even easier “cheat’s” take on flavoured gin, try one of our ‘ginfusions’ below.

We like to use discarded chopping board fruit which would otherwise go to waste to make dehydrated fruit garnishes as well as infusions.Moonshining and consumption of waragi and other alcoholic beverages is widespread in Uganda. In the 2004 WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol, Uganda ranked as the world's leading consumer of alcohol (per capita). [1] Based on results from 2007, Uganda’s overall alcohol consumption was an average of 17.6 liters per capita. [ clarification needed] This is unusually high compared to surrounding countries. [2] In 2016 this seems no longer the case, with total consumption of pure alcohol down to 9.5 litres per capita (≥ 15 years of age). [3] History [ edit ]

So taste the gin at intervals, and once you’re happy with the flavour, filter out all the botanicals using a sieve. If there’s some sediment left in the liquid, use some muslin or a coffee filter to strain it again.a b "80 people die of methanol-laced gin in Uganda". The Gazette (Montreal). 23 April 2010. Archived from the original on 27 April 2010 . Retrieved 23 April 2010. Most countries that we travel to have their own version of alcohol. Of course, there are the mainstream alcohols that you buy in liquor stores and bars, but there is also the stuff that anyone can make if they have the right ingredients. Since we have been in Uganda for almost a year combined between 2021 and 2022, we have tried all types of alcohol that they traditionally make out of bananas. Honestly, we would definitely not use most of the beautiful craft gins we know or send to our Craft Gin Club members for this process, as the added ingredients will hide (and spoil) the distilleries’ delicate flavours. These purple bananas are not used to make alcohol. He claims that their flesh is also pink. Photo Credit: Author Our distillers have captured all that’s delicious about banana bread and bottled it to create this triple banana, sweet gin.