Gutsy Monkey Winter Gin

Gin description

Gutsy Monkey is a winter gin from Dorking’s first distillery, The Gin Kitchen. We made this gin with love, laughter and some of Reuben’s spices. Gutsy is full-bodied, rich and smooth with subtle citrus and complex aromatic highlights. We use fresh lime zest, thyme and ginger as well as an amazing dried allspice from Jamaica. This exclusive gin is hand-crafted in tiny quantities in a traditional copper pot still. The distillation process is slow and gentle to capture these flavours. The delicate thyme and lime flavours are extracted using steam distillation; the other ingredients are steeped overnight and distilled through direct heat. After distillation, we dilute the 80% gin with spring water to a less outrageous 48%, and following a short rest, Gutsy is then bottled and labelled by hand. Gutsy Monkey goes cloudy when diluted with tonic water or when cooled down with ice. This is because the essential oils from the fresh ingredients are only soluble in high strengths of alcohol. We chose 48% vol. to maintain the vibrant flavour profile. The cloudiness could be removed by reducing the fresh ingredients or by chill-filtering the gin, but these approaches also remove the flavours and we wanted to keep Gutsy packed full of taste, and we like the white wintry look anyway.