{"id":9793,"date":"2013-11-17T18:41:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T01:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=9793"},"modified":"2013-11-17T18:41:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T01:41:42","slug":"drink-this-botanica-gin-by-falcon-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=9793","title":{"rendered":"Drink This: Botanica Gin by Falcon Spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been so engulfed in the flood of inventive, new craft beers hittin’ shelves that I haven’t checked out what’s been going on in liquor with hand-crafted spirits. This local gin<\/a>\u00a0is a bold reminder: \u00a0there’s plenty of creativity happening on the other side of the craft aisle\u2026<\/p>\n

\"Botanica-gin\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s so much going on in Botanica Spiritvs Gin<\/a>. All in a good way. And all with no surprise\u2026\u00a0It’s hand-made from a guy who used to be a UC Berkeley Biochemist with a penchant for digging up old cocktail recipes and obscure bitters. He pushed boundaries while exploring different roles, like wine maker and bartender, before compiling all his learnings and settling as a Distiller.<\/p>\n

You can taste both the craft and the science in Botanica Spirtvs<\/strong><\/em>, too (you just can’t taste the ‘n’.) Using predominantly Vapor infusion, his team at Falcon Spirits<\/a> have managed to layer in complex herbs and fruits that play as well together on the nose as they mingle ‘n pay off on your palate. Pretty impressive.<\/p>\n

\"Botanica-gin-batch_umlaut\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yup, that’s real hand numbering. Not just “craft-y” design. Their Still can only produce 300 bottles in each batch so they’re able to assure quality and attention to detail.<\/p>\n

\"Botanica-gin-side\"<\/a><\/p>\n

TRACK SOME DOWN<\/strong><\/div>\n
If you’re in the Bay Area you’ll find bottles of Botanica<\/a> at Ledger’s Liquors<\/a> in Berkeley or in SF at The Jug Shop<\/a> and K&L Wine Merchants<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Or see what some of the finer mixologists are doing with Botanica<\/em><\/strong> at Slanted Door<\/a>\u00a0SF or\u00a0\u00c0\u00a0<\/span>C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in Oakland. Cheers!<\/p>\n

Follow Falcon Spirits on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u2022 \u00a0\u2022 \u2022<\/h2>\n

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I’ve been so engulfed in the flood of inventive, new craft beers hittin’ shelves that I haven’t checked out what’s been going on in liquor with hand-crafted spirits. This local gin\u00a0is a bold reminder: \u00a0there’s plenty of creativity happening on the other side of the craft aisle\u2026 There’s so much going on in Botanica Spiritvs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,3352],"tags":[3920,3916,3917,798,3919,3918],"class_list":["post-9793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fooddrink","category-random","tag-artisanal-gin","tag-botanica","tag-botanica-spiritvs-gin","tag-cocktail","tag-falcon-spirits","tag-gin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9801,"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9793\/revisions\/9801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}