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Baltimore Spirits Co. Shot Tower: Skeleton Spirit Gin
Baltimore Spirits Co.
Shot Tower Skeleton Spirit is gin with its sleeves rolled up—no prettying, no softening, no apologies. It channels the industrial grit of Baltimore's harbor district into a spirit that rewards those who appreciate texture and tension over smoothness. This is the kind of gin that reminds you juniper is a wild, thorny thing.
Ki No Tou Kyoto Old Tom Gin
Ki No Bi
Ki No Tou is the Kyoto Distillery's masterful take on the Old Tom style, bringing a distinctly Japanese sensibility to a classic British template. The restrained sweetness allows the exquisite botanical composition to shine—each sip feels like walking through a Kyoto garden in late October. A contemplative, harvest-season gin that rewards patience and attention.
Brookie's Byron Dry Gin
Brookie's
Brookie's Byron Dry Gin is a compelling expression of terroir-driven gin making, where native Australian rainforest botanicals are harmonized with classical gin architecture. The persistent mineral thread running through nose, palate, and finish speaks directly to the volcanic soils and ancient geology of the Byron Bay hinterland. A gin that proves sense of place can be distilled as powerfully as it is grown.
Bombay Sapphire East London Dry Gin
Bombay Sapphire East
Bombay Sapphire East takes the classic blueprint and turns the heat dial up with the addition of Thai lemongrass and Vietnamese black peppercorn — two fire-driven botanicals that reshape the gin's identity without dismantling its foundation. It's an accessible yet compelling illustration of how heat, both literal and botanical, can transform a spirit's character. A perfect fit for spice-forward cocktails and an excellent daily-driver gin with genuine personality.
Ableforth's Bathtub Gin Old Tom
Ableforth's
Ableforth's Bathtub Old Tom captures the liminal warmth of dusk—sweeter and more meditative than its London Dry sibling, yet never cloying. Its cold-compounded botanical infusion method gives it a rounded, layered character that rewards slow sipping. A gin that belongs to the golden hour.
Collective Arts Artisanal Dry Gin
Collective Arts
Collective Arts Artisanal Dry Gin brings a boldly spiced, peppery character that slots perfectly into a lineup exploring degrees of flame and smoke. Its assertive juniper-forward profile and warming cassia-pepper backbone make it an excellent sipping gin or a compelling base for cocktails that call for backbone. A confident, well-crafted Canadian gin that punches well above its price point.
Bols Genever
Bols
The original juniper spirit that predates London Dry by centuries, Bols Genever is a living link to the 1820 recipe that birthed an entire category. Its malt-driven body and restrained botanical profile make it both a history lesson and a thoroughly modern pleasure—proof that the roots of gin hold fast in Dutch soil.
Tarquin's Cornish Pastis Gin
Tarquin's
Southwestern Distillery's lesser-known expression channels the raw, mineral spirit of the Cornish coast with remarkable conviction. Where many gins chase florals or tropical botanicals, this bottling digs into the earth and stone beneath, making it a natural companion to the volcanic wines and peated whiskeys in this issue's lineup. It's a gin that tastes like terroir — unapologetically austere, deeply satisfying, and built on bedrock.
Bols Genever Barrel Aged 18 Month
Bols
A masterclass in patience applied to the gin family tree. Where most gins celebrate the instant brightness of distillation, Bols Barrel Aged 18 Month embraces the slow alchemy of oak and time. The result is a spirit that bridges the worlds of aged whiskey and botanical distillate — furnace-forged grain spirit tempered into something deeply contemplative. Perfectly aligned with "The Furnace of Patience," this genever proves that even the juniper berry bows to time's authority.
Gin de Mahón Xoriguer
Xoriguer
In an issue celebrating rhythm and the clockwork of seasons, Xoriguer is the gin that answers the call. Made from wine-based spirit distilled in copper pot stills over juniper harvested from the very hills surrounding Mahón, it is a spirit inseparable from its place and its calendar. The juniper harvest, the grape harvest, the Mediterranean seasons — all audible in the glass. It is beautifully uncomplicated, profoundly rooted, and unlike any London Dry you've ever tasted. A timeless rhythm bottled on a tiny island.
Genevieve Genever-Style Gin
Anchor Distilling Company
A cerebral, textural gin that whispers where others shout. Genevieve rewards patient sippers and reshapes classic cocktails with malty gravity.
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.
Citadelle Vieille de Grasse Gin
Citadelle
Citadelle Vieille de Grasse is a gin that has been allowed to age into its own wisdom. Where most gins are bright and immediate, this one asks you to sit with it. The extended oak maturation doesn't mask the botanicals—it deepens them, lending a patina that rewards patience. This is gin as memoir, each sip revealing another well-worn layer of a life richly lived. For Issue #159's meditation on worn things that speak, it is the perfect companion: something that has been shaped by time and is more eloquent for the weathering.