The Gin To My Tonic Club January (Ginuary) 2022
Meet-the-Makers Virtually on Saturday 29th January 6.00pm-8.30pm

Forget Dry January and embrace the month of Ginuary, as The Gin To My Tonic kick-start 2022 with a whole new line-up of distillers!
We are back and we are going into 2022 exactly the same way we left 2021…. surrounded by amazing gin and celebrating the hard work and talents of some of the UK’s most exciting craft distillers. This month’s line-up is particularly exciting if we do so say ourselves, including the newly launched to newly rebranded, with each distillery / maker at a completely different stage of their distilling / gin journey.
Let’s start the year as we mean to go on! We can’t wait to see you all once again and raise a gin from afar.
Love and Best Wishes,
The Gin To My Tonic Team
ON THE NIGHT - MIX WITH THE BEST
Faith & Sons Pineapple Gin – Fever-Tree Mediterranean Tonic & a garnish of Pineapple.
Orkney Kirkjuvagr Origin – Fever-Tree Indian Tonic & a garnish of Orange
Ruddy Fine Lockdown Gin – Fever-Tree Mediterranean Tonic and a garnish of Red Apple
Shetland Reel Ocean Sent – Fever-Tree Indian Tonic & a garnish of Pink Grapefruit or Samphire
The Only Way Is Gin – Fever-Tree Naturally Light Tonic & a garnish of Pink Grapefruit.
These are recommendations of The Gin To My Tonic and Fever-Tree.

Fine Modern Spirits Driven By Exploration with Faith & Sons

Former Manchester bartender and Portugal native, Filipe Sousa, founded Faith & Sons in 2015. Not only was it a natural progression from his bartending career, but it gave him the opportunity to continue working on the skills he first began honing in Germany under legendary distiller, Klaus Hagmann. Apt in its name, Faith & Sons required faith and belief as he and his family undertook a huge life-changing decision to chase a worthy dream.
Fuelled by passion and encouraged by faith, Faith & Sons’ portfolio has grown immensely since its initial flagship gin – a nostalgia evoking gin made with ingredients prominent in Filipe’s upbringing – with flavoured gins, liqueurs and rums now calling the Manchester micro-distillery home.
Their philosophy is reflected in the heart of their distillery and in the way they make spirits. Passion is the fuel and faith is the key.
Unmistakably Orcadian – Orkney Distillery
Reflecting the boldness of their Norse ancestors, the clarity of their seas, and the purity of their air, Kirkjuvagr pronounced ‘kirk-u-vaar’ is proudly hand-crafted on the Orkney Islands by Orkney Gin Distilling.
The Orkney Distillery is situated in the heart of Kirkwall. Their flagship gin – Kirkjuvagr Origin– which is the Old Norse pronunciation for Kirkwall – was released in 2016. In 2017, their Navy-Strength, Arkh-Angell followed. In 2018 they released both Harpa, a sweeter juniper led gin, and Aurora, a warming spiced gin, with their Honey and Raspberry Old Tom expression, Beyla following in 2019. Their gins are traditionally distilled in their two copper pot stills, using a range of unique Orkney botanicals inspired by Orkney’s Norse heritage.
This London Dry Gin is made with hand-harvested Orcadian botanicals, including Ramanas rose, Burnet rose, borage, angelica and traditional Orkney bere barley.

Ruddy Fine

When Cheryl and Rory were chatting over gin cocktails on their first date, they could never have envisaged where that mutual appreciation of this iconic spirit would take them just a few short years later… Ruddy Fine Gin came from a fascination in the flavours and methods involved in creating gin, and a desire to make something truly amazing!
Tinkering with steeping a few locally sourced botanicals soon progressed through to a little 5 litre copper still in their kitchen, and now we proudly develop our range of gins close to home with the help of our beautiful still, ‘Marion’.
Based in the little village of Ruddington in the heart of the Nottinghamshire countryside, the Ruddy Fine Distillery is the very essence of a small artisan producer.
All their gin flavours are still meticulously developed in our kitchen at home, before being taken down the road to their Distillery to be cooked up in batches of just 350 bottles at a time. As you can imagine, this involves a great deal of sampling, so being at home really saves on taxi fares!
The adventure beGINs here with Shetland Reel
The Shetland Distillery Company is owned by two married couples sharing a passion for producing top quality products in local communities.
Over the past 12 years, Frank and Debbie Strang have regenerated the former RAF site at Saxa Vord, Unst into an award-winning tourist resort with year-round self-catering accommodation, seasonal hostel and bar/restaurant. The Supplies Depot on site looked like the ideal building for a distillery, and with the unique selling point of ‘the most northerly’, experience of doing business in and from Shetland, and the building, Debbie and Frank set about finding partners who would share their vision of creating top quality products from the edge of the UK.
They were fortunate to find Stuart Nickerson, who has a pedigree in the drinks industry that is second to none, and his wife Wilma who is also skilled at distilling and creating fabulous gins. The rest is history!

The Only Way Is Gin

As the name might suggest, The Only Way Is Gin Hails from Essex! Created by Nikki Mendes, she set out to create a gin that shouts out proudly. The name is always greeted with a smile and its hugely memorable. It’s not about stereotypes though, it’s about being recognised as coming from Essex and being exceptionally proud of it.
So what is it like? Eight carefully selected botanicals come together. There’s a vibrant burst of orange blossom inspired by Nikki’s many years of living around Valencia in Spain. Bright floral citrus notes continue on the palate with a soft creamy mouthfeel as the iconic country flower of Essex “Poppy Seeds” deliver their charm.
As for the design it’s modern, colourful and slightly flamboyant. Would you expect anything less?
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FEVER TREE

Fever-Tree began in 2003 with a meeting of minds and one simple premise: if three quarters of your G&T is the tonic, wouldn’t you want it to be the best?
It became apparent that Charles and Tim had both come to the same conclusion – namely that the growing prevalence and popularity of premium spirits had not been matched by what was on offer in the tonic category. From the very beginning, Charles and Tim approached their business in a different way – there would be no compromise at Fever-Tree. Flavour and quality were of the utmost importance. This mindset led them on an 18-month adventure from the archives of the British Library to facing the wrong end of a Kalashnikov in the Democratic Republic of Congo and concluded with the launch of our Premium Indian Tonic Water in 2005, with the belief we still operate by today.. If 3/4 of your drink is a mixer, mix with the best. As well as quality, Charles and Tim wanted to put the choice back into the category. The whole company has been built on innovation. Constantly developing new mixers, new flavours, new ideas, thus creating, an array of flavours to pair with the myriad of premium Gins, Vodkas, Whisky’s and Vermouths.
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