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Jensen's Old Tom London Gin
Jensen's
Christian Jensen spent years researching nineteenth-century recipes to reconstruct an authentic Old Tom profile. The result is not a novelty — it is a genuine revival, offering a window into what gin tasted like before London Dry became the dominant style. Essential for anyone building a historically informed Martinez or Tom Collins.
Anchor Old Tom Gin
Anchor Distilling
Anchor's Old Tom is a history lesson in a glass. It recalls the sweeter gin style that dominated before London Dry took over, but does so with restraint and craft. The botanicals are layered rather than loud, and the subtle sweetness acts as a bridge, not a crutch. Excellent in a Martinez.
Beefeater 24
Pernod Ricard (Beefeater, est. 1863)
Beefeater 24 is what happens when the world's most experienced gin distiller gives botanicals more time.
Sipsmith London Dry Gin
Beam Suntory (founded by Fairfax Hall, Sam Galsworthy & Jared Brown)
Sipsmith didn’t just make a great gin — they changed the law to do it. In 2009, London had no small-batch copper pot gin distilleries because regulations required stills ten times larger than what craft producers could use. Hall and Galsworthy lobbied Parliament, got the law changed, and installed a tiny 300-liter copper pot still they named Prudence. The gin that came out was a love letter to London Dry — juniper-led, citrus-bright, and unapologetically classic. It launched a thousand craft gins, and it’s still one of the best.
Jeppson's Malört
Jeppson's
Malört is not a spirit you recommend lightly — it's a rite of passage, a loyalty test, and a cultural artifact of Chicago's bar scene rolled into one defiant bottle. It does exactly one thing and does it with absolute conviction: deliver the most aggressively bitter drinking experience commercially available. Whether that's a feature or a bug depends entirely on who you are, but there's no denying its singular identity in the spirits world.