Here’s a perfect ingredient for festive cocktails: Ernst Gin. The Wedding drink maker inherits its name from master distiller Ernst Dobislaw, who in the 1950s returned one of Berlin’s oldest distilleries, the Prussian Spirituosen Manufaktur, to its former glory. Among the notes and discoveries in the dormant distillery was a classic recipe for gin. Produced from a wheat distillate and rested for eight months, the spirit has the usual notes of juniper and citrus but brings softer tastes of lavender blossoms, elderflower and fresh ginger. Today, the Berlin brand still sticks to these roots, hand producing the classic recipe for a fine gin with a surprisingly smooth taste for its 47% strength. It’s good on its own, but the flavors really unfold when mixed with tonic and topped with lime, or as a hot gin toddy with cinnamon. Cheers to that! (Text: Emily Miotke / Photos: Savannah van der Niet)
Ernst Gin can be found online and in shops around Berlin.
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