DRUMSHANBO - Ceramic Bottle Dragon Edition - Gunpowder Irish Gin - 43%
The Shed Distillery is located on the edge of a lake in Drumshanbo , Ireland . PJ and Denise Rigney, with their dedicated team of distillers, experiment with wild grains, Irish flora and exotic plants. The Shed's has five copper stills: 3 focused on Irish Whiskey, 2 on Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, and 2 copper column stills focused on Sausage Tree Pure Irish Vodka. The stills were specially made by Arnold Holstein in Germany and brought to Drumshanbo.
The process of making Gunpowder Gin begins with a slow distillation with 8 botanicals added to the copper still: juniper berries, meadowsweet, cardamom, coriander seeds, angelica root, orris root, caraway seeds and star anise. Next, 4 more plants are added to the steam basket: gunpowder tea, Chinese lemon, oriental grapefruit and kaffir lime.
The creature on the label is the mythological offspring of a hare and an American antelope. According to legend, he was conceived in a storm. This hand-gilded ceramic bottle was created to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Dragon.
