Gin is a distilled alcoholic drink flavoured with juniper berries and other botanical ingredients. It originated as a medicinal liquor made by monks and alchemists in the 12th Century in Salerno, Ital
A selection of bottled gins for sale in Georgia, United States, 2010
Hogarth's Gin Lane (created 1750–1751)
George Cruikshank's engraving of The Gin Shop (1829)
A Bee's Knees cocktail made with gin, honey, and lemon juice
A juniper berry is the female seed cone produced by the various species of junipers. It is not a true berry but a cone with unusually fleshy and merged scales called a galbulus, which gives it a berry
Gin
…Gin () is a distilled alcoholic drink flavoured with juniper berries and other botanical ingredients. It originated as a medicinal liquor made by monks and alchemists in the 12th Century in Salerno, Italy. The modern gin…
Juniper berries are actually modified conifer cones.
Young green and mature purple berries can be seen growing on the same plant.
Dried juniper berries at a market in Syracuse, Sicily