Ink Gin is a tasty dry gin made with 13 organic botanicals, some of which are native to the Husk Plantation Distillery in Australia where the gin is produced.

Ink Gin

Neat, and this is an excellent gin to have on the rocks, sweet orange is more subtle and with the archetypal Australian lemon myrtle, berry and spicy notes more to the fore.Modern Australian flavours with bold citrus notes of lemon myrtle and sweet orange, followed by warm pepper berry and soft pea flower. Quirky names abound when talking about this gin, produced in the small town of Tumbulgum in the Tweed valley, in the far north-eastern corner of New South Wales. Being a complete unknown in a world of international industrial scale gin producers, Paul Messenger knew he had to do something truly different in his little tin shed in Northern NSW. Distinctly floral, complex, with a signature creamy mouthfeel, it’s a delight to drink with twists and turns aplenty. Ink Gin is made in a hand-beaten copper pot where the botanicals are combined with 100% Australian grain sprit and water from the local caldera.

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The change in colour is novel and gets the drink noticed but this gin would stand on its own and is a great addition to the flowering and innovative gin scene in Australia.

It has a strangely familiar aroma, it always reminds me of working on my old Land Rover, its uncanny. He set out on a journey of botanical exploration and discovered an exotic flowering legume growing wild in tropical Australia and South East Asia, popular in Thailand and used for centuries in herbal teas and traditional medicine. Settling on balanced recipe of 12 botanicals, Ink Gin is placed in a hand-beaten copper pot still at the Husk Plantation Distillery, where it is combined with 100% Australian grain spirit and water from the volcanic rocks of the caldera that originally fell as rain.

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It seemed perfect, for they had a vision to create different types of spirit - spirits of the land and close to nature. Download a free e-book featuring all the winning recipes in full, including information on syrups and techniques at the link below. Post-distillation, the specially prepared petals of the butterfly pea flower are steeped in the still for twenty-four hours to give Ink Gin its distinctive colour. Traditional small batch distillation meets modern and exciting flavours with the inclusion of 13 choice botanicals. They smuggled in rum, they smuggled in gin, but most of all they smuggled in brandy, lots and lots of brandy.Squid Gin comes to us from the Pocketful of Stones Distillery in Penzance, which was made using a recipe that features real, no-foolin' squid ink! In the gin was a truly unique botanical that broke boundaries and raised eyebrows, for the gin was blue. This month’s featured gin is Ink Gin – the original, patented, butterfly pea gin, and one of Australia’s best selling, best loved craft gins. The subsequent run on Husk Distillers’ organic, small batch Ink Gin led to the producer selling out almost immediately.