The Darker Side
of Gin Ruin
-Mothers
Few drinks in history can
lay claim to as much conflict
and decadence as that of
gin. Before you had tasted
your first G&T the juniper
flavoured spirit we know
and love so well had already
survived plague, war and
depression. It had fanned the
fires of colonisation; become
a symbol of revolution;
fuelled navies and served
as both contraceptive and
cure. But this is the story of
the spirits’ darkest hours.
A time remembered as
‘The Gin Craze’.
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