The Gin Drinker’s Year

Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9780600639954

Price: £10

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The Gin Drinker’s Year is a celebration of all things gin and packed full of cocktails, food and g-infused recipes.

With everything from 150 gin cocktails and gin-infusions, plus 30 delectable gin-spiked food recipes such as Gin Penne and Minty G&T Lollies, to heartfelt tributes to Snoop Dogg’s ‘Gin & Juice’, the sozzled wit and wisdom of renowned gin soak Dorothy Parker and the rules of Gin Pong and Ten-Gin Bowling, there’s an entry for every day of the year.

You’ll also discover fascinating snippets of gin-eral knowledge such as the history of vermouth, the birthday gift that the beefeaters of the Tower of London are given every year, and why you most definitely should be celebrating National Gingerbread Day.

So let the festivities be-gin. This is every gin lover’s handbook to the best year ever.

Highlights include:
January: New Year’s resolutions, Burns Night, Al Capone and a celeriac gin-fusion
February: Spin the Bottle, National Toast Day, Pancake Day and the Leap Day Cocktail
March: Gin Snap, White Day, St Patrick’s Day, Earl Grey and some rather questionable poetry
April: Shakespeare’s birthday, National Raisin Day and a Great Gatsby inspired Gin Rickey
May: Dick Bradsell’s birthday, a Delft Donkey, a little opera and International Tea Day
June: Strawberry Fields, World Gin Day, Father’s Day, a load of cobblers and floral foraging
July: Independence Day, genever, National Pi a Colada Day and garden games
August: Lychees, Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash, World Oyster Day and Dubonnet
September: Hedgerows, Florida, International Talk Like a Pirate Day and directions to Park Lane
October: International Gin & Tonic Day, the Beer Flood, spooky concoctions and Sake
November: Albert Camus, National Espresso Day and the anniversary of Casablanca
December: Humphrey Bogart’s birthday, Roald Amundsen, Gin Pong and fizzy bubbles