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Discovery of Craft Gin

A personal 'spiritual' journey towards finding that perfect drink.

It is said that with age comes wisdom and self awareness. So, it is in that spirit of self awareness that I must admit that for a large part of my life I was a barbarian.

Like most young people who leave home at an early age, my youth was spent drinking the cheapest alcohol possible: Gilbey's Green Label whiskey, Romanov vodka, Haywards 5000 beer, Old Monk rum. I lived in Sweden where every Friday we would stock up on five dollar supermarket wines. To say that my approach was more driven by value than quality would be a generous way of looking at it.

Of course, as you grow older, you come to money before you come to wisdom, and so I started drinking

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