I’ve been working hard to sort out the much neglected Cocktail Section of the website. After taking a long hard look at it and realising that it was really only some recipes pasted into a long list, the OCD took over.
So, what we now have is a neat title page listing cocktails by individual spirits. [...]

I’ve been working on this one for quite some time now, much more substantial than the Rum Timeline and hopefully just as interesting.
Origin of the name
Abbreviation from the dutch jenever (jenever, jeniever, juneva, genever, genevrer… etc.), the spirit from which gin evolved. Jenever itself thought to come from the french word for juniper: genévrier.

I’ve just been to Amsterdam on my stag weekend. The reason I gave no warning about this was because I didn’t know that I was going until I was actually there. Yes - my lovely brothers and friends kidnapped me, put me in a dress then blindfolded me and put an ipod + ear defenders on me. I was then walked, driven and flown around until 6 hours later the blindfold was taken off and I was sitting in a bar in Amsterdam*.