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

Product Information

The driver will input your year of birth into their device and may then require an ID check to complete the age verification process. The quality of English gin, even towards the end of the 1720s, may have been dubious but it was cheap and readily available. This unhappy incident was to give rise to a new Jacobite toast, ‘To the little gentleman in black velvet’. Jenever was starting to flow from Holland and due to gin being grain rather than wine based, it could also be produced in England.

Like Dutch jenever, English gin went through two stages of production (and in most cased still does). Famous for jenever and liqueurs, De Kuyper was established in 1695 when newly wed Petrus de Kuyper founded the firm in Horst in Limburg, in the south of the Netherlands. In the 1900s the gin palaces evolved into cocktail and dance venues as cocktails became very popular in the 1920s and 30’s.Distilled five times for "exceptional purity", the gin is made using carefully selected botanicals including orange peel, coriander, angelica, lime, cassia and nutmeg to create a "fresh, vibrant spirit" that is "bursting with plenty of orange citrus notes".

This boosted British distilling and helped raise much needed capital to help fund the frequent and bloody wars he was so fond of fighting. In the same vain that someone might style their fashion taking inspiration from young Royals such as the Princess of Wales, the fondness of gin from King William and Queen Mary led to the development of a 'Gin Craze' in the late 1600's. King William Blood Orange Gin - Our new Blood Orange gin raises a glass to King William, the regal father of gin distillation in the U.Heavily subsidised English malted barley exports provided the basis for the rapid expansion of the Dutch distilling industry during the early 18th century.

The ICP found the use of two decimal places “unusual” and “intentional” and noted that it appeared without a percentage sign which “framed the number as a historical date reference in the context of King William of Orange”. The labels on both gins include the well-known image of King William with his sword in his hand astride his white horse at the Boyne.His first action as King was to drop taxation and licencing on distillation, whilst raising taxes on imported foreign spirits. The combination of elements on the label were likely to be divisive and inflammatory and would further fuel division in certain communities where religiously aggravated crime was still prevalent,” the ICP concluded. I welcome the producer’s intention to make changes to the product packaging and encourage other producers to note how a combination of factors can lead to a breach of the code.

These tended to be large scale operations and there were only a few of them, most being situated in greater London and represented by the Worshipful Company of Distillers. The labels also read: "Our premium gin raises a glass to King William, the regal father of gin distilling in the UK. Despite the battle taking place more than three centuries ago, it is still frequently mentioned in sectarian songs and chants. The British Mutiny Act of 1720 absolved tradesmen engaged in distilling from having to billet soldiers.

It found it “unusual” to see the number presented to two decimal places, and considered it “intentional” to directly associate the number with a year. With help from the master distiller Herman Jansen from Schiedam they developed and revived the century-old recipe that conquered the British island in 1689. Now, 350 years later, the Amsterdam Craft Gin Company relaunches the authentic recipe from that time. We launched King William Gin after finding out he liberalised the manufacture of Gin in the UK with his first act of Parliament in 1690.