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TOP BEVERAGES GIN PART 2
TOP BEVERAGES – NO GIMMICKS
PART 2
Going on from my previous post, I wanted to focus on the ethos of the founders of Top Beverages and in my next post, I will focus on where they wish to take their brand.
As I mentioned before, Top Beverages do not wish to be defined by CBD, but rather strive to create the best product they can, using only the finest quality ingredients. They have taken time to ensure all the ingredients used are tested and that they are following best practices for their industry. They are thus not the fastest to market with a range of spirits containing CBD, but they are confident in their product and believe it is the best.
Top Beverages have chosen the name for more than one reason. It indicates their ambitions and objectives and if you reverse the letters, it also pays respect to one of their core ingredients! Both founders are champions of the health benefits of CBD and as one of the co-founders, Nick, shared with me, they love a drink too. Whilst we all know drinking should be in moderation and too much is bad for our health, when we do drink, shouldn’t we be drinking the best we can afford or the best that is out there? It’s this philosophy that has led to them creating a range of high quality spirits, with the additional benefit of them containing CBD. If you are going to drink, drink something that is good for you.
So with this in mind, I want to focus on gin from their Signature Collection – SUPER GIN.
Super Gin contains your usual gin botanicals distilled alongside three superfoods - goji berries, acai berries and blueberries from Scotland. This alongside 50mg of full spectrum CBD oil makes for an amazing gin. There is nothing artificial in flavour about this gin. It’s fruity, silky in the mouth due to the high oil content and has a little bite to finish. For my second cocktail, keeping with a berry theme, I have gone with a bramble riff, as who doesn’t love a bramble!
SUPER BRAMBLE
25ml Super Gin
5 bar spoons of juice from a jar of Opies Luxardo Cherries (Kirsch)
3 bar spoons of homemade forest fruits reduction
Shake with ice and pour into your glass and top with a good quality light tonic
Garnished with some black cherries and a sprinkle of rose petals.
I have purposefully left all the “bits” in my reduction and not strained this drink – all the goodness of berries are in the skins, so keep a spoon handy when you have finished your drink and ensure you don’t waste them!
Where did our Christmas traditions start? This blogpost explores some of our favourite Christmas traditions, discovering where they came from, when they started and why we enjoy them year after year.
For the past few years I've set myself a 12 Days of Christmas challenge with a gin-twist! The theme is loosely based on the song "Twelve Days of Christmas" and it's a gin-terpretation (yes, a made up word!) of the song! I have posted brands and cocktails which relate to each of the 12 gifts and last year chose to use gins that had numbers in their branding. Whilst this is a personal challenge, it's open to everyone, so if you want to join in for a few or all of the days, then please do feel free - just tag me and I'll reshare!
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It's a bit early for clover but I did manage to find a few leaves poking out the ground and they were perfect to use for a post for St Patrick's Day. Other foliage or flowers work and even citrus peel, so if you aren't trying to theme your cocktails, then you can just pretty them up with something else. Sometimes condensation is enough to hold light objects onto the glass, but it wasn't working this time, so I had a trick up my sleeve!
Compiling a list of my top 10 gins is almost impossible, as what I feel like drinking will change daily depending on my mood. I enjoy gins that are different, but they may not be for everyone, so if you are looking to get into drinking gin or want to try something new, then this is a list of classic gins, which are excellent value for money and won't disappoint. All of these brands have a good range, including some flavoured gins, so there should be something for everyone in this list! Are there other brands on my shelf which are worthy of inclusion in a top 10 list? Yes of course and I may be a little biased as I've visited most of these distilleries and they all have something different to offer and make excellent spirits. However, they are all good starting points for those new to drinking gin and wanting to learn a little bit more about the history and how gin is made. Click on the links or photos to be taken to the brand websites or my reviews on Instagram .
Given this week is National Storytelling Week, I thought I would expand on my Top 10 favourite Gin Stories and share them again with you all in more detail. They are not in any particular order and although they are all good gins, it's impossible to make a list of my 10 favourite gins, as I have too many! If you want to read more of my gin stories, they are part of my Virtual Gin Tours which are either on my Instagram account or filed here on my website too for easy reading. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed researching and writing them all. Allison As seen in The Daily Mail