Showing posts with label Gin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gin. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Red 217 and swigging Plymouth Gin


Red 217


He rings twice and has a trolley
This wheels on fire (ish)

Plymouth Day 3


Well what can be more educational than a trip to the home of Plymouth Gin and a tour where the process is explained followed by a sample of the product?
Made for you to enjoy

Very interesting and for me strangely moving - Gin definitely not my tipple but the history and resurrection of the brand stirred something in me - great way to spend an hour - and £7 seems very fair as the drink you get free would cost most of this.
A chemical works with added botanicals
Henry the Eighth closed it as a monastery - and Coates is the man  who made the gin

A bar in what was once a monastery