Will it be allowed to own both Beefeater and Seagram's gin?
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It can also boast an impressive stable of other spirit brands ranging across Smirnoff Vodka and Gordon's Gin, alongside newer acquisitions that put it in a strong position, with local grain spirits from Vietnam to Turkey.
It produces Chivas Regal, Ballantine's Beefeater Gin, The Glenlivet, Royal Salute, Aberlour, Scapa, and 100 Pipers.
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While most vodkas taste alike, there's more gin for bartenders to choose from every day, and consumers can do well to learn the flavor differences between them.
Paisley-based Chivas Brother's portfolio includes Chivas Regal, Ballantine's, Beefeater Gin, The Glenlivet and Royal Salute.
Gin's origins stretch back to the Middle Ages, when it was served as a remedy for various ailments.
Accustomed to beer, with its lower alcohol content, Londoners were unprepared at first for gin's far more potent kick.
Accustomed to beer, with its lower alcohol content and more filling bulk, Londoners were unprepared at first for gin's far more potent kick.
Aristocrats feared gin's corrosive effect on the social hierarchy: Might not a drunken millwright someday fancy himself equal to a drunken lord of the manor?
After earlier securing the go-ahead from the European Union, on condition the combined group sells its Dewar's and Ainslie scotch brands, this week the group won approval from the US authorities, though it too demanded concessions - the sale of Dewar's and of Bombay gin.
Try one of the bar's signature creations, Beefeater Gin sweetened with homemade jam or fresh-mixed lime cordial.
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Nelson's cottonseed is trucked from the Shallowater gin to the Plains Cooperative Oil Mill (PCOM), on the east side of Lubbock.
However, regulators may still have some grounds for concern, for instance over Pernod's ownership of both Beefeater and Seagram gin.
Andrew Rosen's father was a bombastic character who played gin rummy with William Holden and pretty much invented designer jeans.
" Dry Fly's backstory will emphasize the fact that its vodka, gin and whiskey are "tied tightly to individual farmers in eastern Washington.
So vodka stuck, but in Mr. Palazzi's opinion, the best martinis are always made with gin, as it adds a little more complexity and flavor.
Regardless of the size of the defense budget, the U.S. retains the intellectual and productive capacity to "gin up" whatever is required for unforeseen contingencies.
Fitzgerald was the novelist who most thrillingly and accurately captured the roar of the 1920s, the "great gaudy spree" that witnessed the most overwhelming economic boom in U.S. history, a time when money and bathtub gin flowed like water.
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Warner cites the following anecdote, from a 1736 text: A maid spent the morning in a gin shop and then returned to her master's Kensington home with a rowdy trio.
That is the plant that quenches a very large share of Britain's thirst for spirits - not only whisky, but vodka, gin and rum too.
Diageo is the world leader in scotch whisky, gin and vodka, with brands including Johnnie Walker, Gordon's and Smirnoff.
Which is convenient, as today gin, in particular high-end gin such as Plymouth, Tanqueray No. 10, Hendrick's and Beefeater 24, is back in fashion.
Ben van Doesburgh, chief executive of De Kuyper Royal Distillers, a 316-year-old Dutch gin and spirits maker in Schiedam, acknowledges the common currency's benefits for business.
Though he encountered his share of racism--at one Friar event the chancellor's wife assumed he was a waiter and ordered him to fetch her a gin and tonic--he also had his share of opportunities.
Apple, by contrast, doesn't need to give OS X a radical mobile makeover or gin together an iPad-esque tablet -- hey, it's already got the iPad.
Sold-out performances, multiple shows scheduled each week and big-name performers like Bennie and the Jets, the Gin Blossoms and Aimee Mann have meant needed bookings during Mountain View's peak summer season.
If, like me, you are not categorically keen on Southeast Asian beach resorts, it is probably because you have been to Thailand's Phuket or Krabi, where you sat on heel-hammered sands drinking a warm gin and tonic from a literal bucket, wishing you'd discovered the place before the invention of fire-spinning, Katy Perry and laser shows.
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