Style
Discover Scottish Gin by style from traditional London Dry Scottish Gins with classic gin flavour profiles to Old Tom Scottish Gins that have a sweeter flavour profile. Or explore high strength Scottish Gins in the Navy Strength Scottish Gin style or Cask Aged Scottish Gins that have been left to rest in a cask imparting colour, flavour and texture.
Bathtub
Bathtub Gin takes its name from a term that first appeared in America in the 1920s during the prohibition era as bootleggers found bathtubs were the perfect size for making batches of gin. Also known as compounded or cold compounded, this production method combines a neutral alcohol spirit and botanicals in a large vessel where the alcohol slowly and naturally extracts the flavours and colours from the botanicals.
Bathtub
Cask Aged
Cask Aged Gin is created as a result of gin being stored for a set amount of time in a wooden cask or with wooden chips. Although gin was always traditionally transported around the world in wooden casks of all types, cask aged gins are anything but old fashioned. Thanks to the diversity of casks including sherry, port, whisky, bourbon and wine, Cask Aged Gin can provide some dynamic and rich flavour profiles as the gin is imbued with deep essences and colours from the wood, often rich in flavours and pigments from its previous contents.
Cask Aged
Distilled
Distilled Gin is similar to London Dry Gin but artificial flavours can be used in the distillation and additional flavours can be added post distillation, both natural and artificial. Distilled Gin is sometimes referred to as Contemporary, New American, New Western or International style gin.
Distilled
Flavoured
Cask Aged Gin is created as a result of gin being stored for a set amount of time in a wooden cask or with wooden chips. Although gin was always traditionally transported around the world in wooden casks of all types, cask aged gins are anything but old fashioned. Thanks to the diversity of casks including sherry, port, whisky, bourbon and wine, Cask Aged Gin can provide some dynamic and rich flavour profiles as the gin is imbued with deep essences and colours from the wood, often rich in flavours and pigments from its previous contents.
Flavoured
London Dry
London Dry Gin is both a flavour profile and a production method. London Dry Gin tends to follow the traditional, classic flavour of piney juniper, citrus and spice. Alongside juniper, botanicals in London Dry Gin often include orris root, angelica root, cassia bark, citrus peel and coriander, among the core botanicals. Nothing synthetic can be used in the distillation like flavourings or colourings and nothing can be added post distillation apart from water and a tiny amount of sugar, meaning all flavours come from one distillation.
London Dry
Navy Strength
Navy Strength Gin has to be at least 57% ABV to be classed as a Navy Strength Gin in the UK. It earned the name Navy Strength because sailors used to test the ABV of their rationed gin on the ship by mixing it with a small quantity of gunpowder and if the mixture ignited they knew the gin was suitable and not watered down.
Navy Strength
Old Tom
Old Tom Gin is sweeter style of gin. Often the sweetness of an Old Tom Gin is created with the addition of sugar, honey, syrup or essence but the taste can come through a variety of natural ingredients, such as orange, apple, elderflower or even sap
Old Tom
