King William Blood Orange British Luxury Flavoured Gin, 1 x 70 cl

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The poorest people began drinking more gin less responsibly, meanwhile, royalty and high society sipped tamely as more of a fashion statement than an emotional or psychological release. Eyebrows were raised two years ago upon the release of King William Gin - named in honour of William of Orange, a revered figure among protestants and some Rangers fans. Never ones to be short changed, sailors would light a small amount of gin-soaked gunpowder, therefore obtaining ‘proof’ their ration had not been watered down by a scrimping Navy. This Act established the concept of national debt and enabled the government to levy duties on ships according to their tonnage, and upon beer and other liquors. In 1726, he wrote a pamphlet on behalf of London's Company of Distillers entitled, 'A Brief Case of the Distillers, and the Distilling Trade in England, Showing how Far it is the Interest of England to Encourage the Said Trade'.Now most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was the greatest hack of his time and so extremely influential. The authors of the book – The Company of Distillers of London – had encrypted the recipe to ensure that only its members could recreate it. This led to a constitutional monarchy and the Bill of Rights, the crowning of William and Mary as King and Queen of Scotland and the Irish battle of the Boyne. Lucus Bols should not to be confused with Louis de Bils, the son of a wealthy Dutch merchant who supported the work of Boë Sylvius, a physician whose name is often connected to the development of jenever.

It took nearly 80 years for the gin industry to recover with the French-born Irishman, Aeneas Coffey introducing a new still which produced a purer spirit, similar to what we would know today. In the 1900s the gin palaces evolved into cocktail and dance venues as cocktails became very popular in the 1920s and 30’s. When the Gin launched we received a little bit of stick but we took it as it seemed to be intended, which was light-hearted, but if they don’t like us, we don’t care.

William and his wife Mary encouraged the distillation of gin throughout their reign, granting permission for anyone to make the spirit in their home if they wanted to. This replica gin was based on the original 1689 recipe of the spirit made by the Dutch King William III (AKA William of Orange) after he was proclaimed King of England, Ireland and Scotland that very year.

The term 'tradesmen' included innkeepers, and they were the ones most likely to be forced to house unwanted soldiers. Founder Alexander Janssens studied the archives of the British Library to retrieve the original recipe. The botanicals needed to flavour the jenever were supplied by the Amsterdam based Dutch East India Company, the world's first multinational. Please always read the labels, warnings, and directions provided with the product before using or consuming a product.

It begins in 1689 with William of Orange who travelled to London from the Netherlands, bringing a Dutch drink – gin – with him. Fortuitously, the new act also helped English farmers who by selling surplus grain to the distillers were able to pay higher rents to the landowners, who dominated both houses of Parliament and whose support the king needed for his war. The “repetition” of the drink’s alcoholic strength – which appeared five times – was also highlighted as problematic. PREMIUM TASTING GIN PERFECT FOR FLAVOURED GIN ENTHUSIASTS - Our handmade gin is distilled using traditional, centuries old techniques overseen by our master blender.

Whether that or anything else of my draught this morning did it I cannot tell, but I had a couple of stools forced after it.

So, unsurprisingly, this legislation was enough to persuade many innkeepers to start distilling their own gin thus making them tradesmen engaged in distilling and so absolved from having to house the unwanted guests. A local cure came from the bark of the chinchona or ‘fever’ tree, which contained the notoriously bitter quinine. In 1689, King William of Orange had moved into Hampton Court Palace and immediately enacted a series of laws to encourage gin distillation, this is a tribute to his critical part in the launch of gin. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.