#World Gin Day

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06/08/2024 is Primož Trubar Day 🇸🇮, National Best Friends Day 🇺🇸, National Name Your Poison Day 🇺🇸, National Upsy Daisy Day 🇺🇸, National Rosé Day 🇺🇸, World Gin Day 🇬🇧, World Oceans Day 🌊🇺🇳

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🥃 Happy World Gin Day! 🥃

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World Gin Day

Distilled from Juniper berries, gin is one of the sweetest, most subtly flavored liquors. Have a martini, gin and tonic, negroni, or any other gin cocktail.

Distilled spirits have been with us for a very long time, and all of  them have rich histories covering the sometimes mysterious origins of  their use. While spirits have long been used medicinally, only one  started as a medicine and then became a mixer for one of the most  important medicines in history.This delicious, smooth drink is  distilled from the berries of the Juniper tree and can trace its origins  back to an older drink from Denmark known as Jenever.

History of Gin Day

Gin Day was established by England’s own connoisseur of the  juniper-based drink, the Gin Monkey. Emma, the titular Gin Monkey, has  been a huge fan of cocktails of all kinds and has worked throughout the  Newcastle, London, and Leeds area in multiple cocktail bars. Taking this  experience to the streets she created her Gin Monkey site, put together  with the intent of saving intrepid bar-hoppers from finding the worst  of the alcohol joints at their destination.

After having had an incredibly hard time finding anything worth  drinking when she first arrived in London, she decided someone had to  solve this problem for other travelers, and it might as well be her.  Since then she’s taken a dedicated role in providing independent and  impartial views of the gin joints in her area… well, they serve more  than gin, but one is allowed to have a favorite, wouldn’t you say?

But gin has had a noble history as a medicine as well, or rather, as a  way to make medicine more palatable. Quinine is the distillation of the  ground bark of the cinchona tree, which produced a tonic that was  capable of treating malaria. Unfortunately, the quinine was incredibly  bitter, and gin was used to cut it. The flavor caught on, and to this  day, the tonic in the Gin and Tonic contains the slightest bit of  quinine to capture the flavor of the original.

The history of World Fin Day itself began in 2009, following the  efforts of an avid gin connoisseur, Neil Houston. He was already a  massive fan of gin, but wanted to find a way to bring the drink to more  people so that they could enjoy it. At the time, it looked as if other  spirits might supersede gin. So he and the “Gin Monkey” Emma Stokes,  teamed up to launch the first World Gin Day in Birmingham as a way to  popularize a gin bar. In 2010, they launched a similar event in London  and have been celebrating this juniper-based beverage like clockwork  ever since.

World Gin Day started as a tiny event in 2009, but it has since grown  to enormous proportions. In the last few years, things have really  taken off. At the last count, the organizers reached more than 200  million social media users and ran events in more than 30 countries.

Those in charge now put on a vast range of events – everything from  tasting to lectures on the drink’s origins. Prominent figures associated  with the day run masterclasses, too, where participants learn how to  make drinks. And there are even professional courses where bartenders  can up their game.

How to celebrate Gin Day

Celebrating Gin Day is best done by diving straight in and  experimenting with some of the drinks that gin has made amazing. Take a  look at Buzzfeed for a list of drinks that are out of this world, and don’t forget to check in with the Gin Monkey  to get the updated list of the best places in the world to have a  smashingly good cocktail! Gin Day is the best day (other than yesterday  and tomorrow) to have a nice Gin Cocktail!

The best way to celebrate gin day is to travel to one of the original  gin bars and try a range of mixers and cocktails. Some of the best  establishments offer “house drinks” with a unique twist you can’t get  anywhere else. While the classic drink is gin and tonic, there are now a  host of variations that you can try.

If you don’t want to travel, you can check to see whether anybody is  organizing a World Gin Day-related event in your local community. Local  gin companies will often arrange street parties where people can show up  and sample local beverages made in their area. Many of these events  also provide food and even opportunities to improve your cocktail-making  skills.

The organizers of the event have expanded their activities all over  the world. You can attend taste-testing sessions, gin-related treasure  hunts, pop-up markets focusing on gin, and garden parties. Just look for  what’s going on in your local area by visiting the official World Gin  Day website.

Finally, you can also experiment with making your own gin beverages  at home. There are dozens of recipes out there, both traditional and  modern, that you can try to emulate. Red Lake, for instance, is a gin  drink made of 1.5 oz Monkey 47 Gin, raspberry syrup, and lime juice.  Likewise, Feeling Blue is a cocktail that uses 2 oz gin mixed with lemon  juice, grapefruit bitters, tonic water, and dry Vermouth.

Gin is one of the most important liquors in the world and the basis  for some of our most beautiful drinks. Just like wine, it is possible to  become a connoisseur and learn the different tastes and subtle notes  from each producer.

Just remember to celebrate World Gin Day responsibly. Aim for merriment, not inebriation!

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Today is 8th of June.

Today is World Oceans Day, World Gin Day, National Best Friends Day, National Rosé Day.

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Happy #WorldGinDay! Maybe pour yourself a little gin and check out our video about the Gimlet, and the colonial history of gin and gin cocktails!

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Ginebra San Miguel celebrates 190 years in The Art of Gin event

Ginebra San Miguel Inc. (GSMI), the maker of the world’s largest selling gin, recently hosted an unforgettable celebration at Novotel Manila. Together with my fellow foodies, media reps, social media celebrities, and brand ambassadors, we gathered at the hotel together with GSMI’s team to honor the Art of Gin. A Walk-through of Ginebra San Miguel’s History and Possibilities The event kicked off…

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Alternative Bands + Car Crashes

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not my best work, but i wanted to be on time for at least ONE day, yknow? shhhhhh noah is eepy

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Hi Flower Gin(is it ok to call you Flower Gin?)! I have a My Dearest AU in mind already, I love Ahn Eunjin and NGM's chemistry so much I'd love to see them a husband and wife prosecutor- police duo, Or police-police or prosecutor-prosecutor crime fighting duo.

Dear sweet Anon,

Oh you absolutely may! Flower Gin sounds a lot lovelier than I probably am but I will take it with thanks.

Firstly: Your mind!! They would be excellent in a well-written crime noir. Is Ahn Eun-jin the hotshot detective? Is Namgoong Min along for the ride? Is someone corrupt? Are they both terribly decent morally upright folks fighting for their lives? What’s their marriage like? Messy but ultimately happy? Angsty? I have no way of making you tell us, obviously, but do feed us, Anon!

Before this show I couldn’t have envisioned this pairing - I came into knowing and loving Ahn Eun-jin only - but they are so good together it’s astounding.

Thank you and please do tell us everything!!

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@febuwhump Day 19: "Please don't..."

Warning for Pain, exhaustion, child abuse, physical abuse, verbal abuse, bullying, overworking, parentification, emotional breakdown

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i want her for christmas

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06/10/2023 is National Ballpoint Pen Day 🖊🇺🇲, National Black Cow Day 🇺🇲, National Herbs and Spices Day 🇺🇲, National Iced Tea Day 🇺🇲, National Rosé Day 🇺🇲, National Egg Roll Day 🇺🇲, World Gin Day 🇬🇧, Queen's Birthday 👸🇬🇧

[asteroidtroglodyte]

5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

10 years ago, I was watching my Potential and Opportunities dissolve and evaporate in an ocean of cheap gin and expensive whiskey.

But 5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

One of the exercises they had us perform was to imagine ourselves happy, 5 years in the future.

Many of us in that room had forgotten how to imagine nice things happening to them. A few snorted (well, I snorted), finding the notion that we’d even still be around in 5 years grimly humorous.

For about half of us, it was the last stop on the way down.

But I indulged the therapist. I was there, after all, because I did not want to die. So, I imagined myself, 5 years hence.

Happy.

It came to me all at once; an artistic remix on Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want, reframed with myself placing food at the table.

Sunday Dinner At My Place, I answered, when it came my turn to share my fantasy. I was asked what food I imagined eating.

It’s not the meal itself, I said, it’s the implications framed around it. Sunday Dinner At My Place means that I have a Place. It means that I have Family that will actually speak to me and friends who actually want to see me. It means money enough not just to feed myself but others too. It means having the time to spare to take the time preparing the meal.

A lot of nodding heads all around me. A struck chord. Many people with no Place, in that place. Nowhere that would lament their leaving.

5 years hence, as I lay down to sleep in my Home, with my Wife and my Son, surrounded by my Art and my Flowers, I reflect.

It was a long road. It was hard. We lost people. So many people. There were long days and long nights and hospital stays. Angry arguments with ghosts. I changed, in ways I never hoped for, or expected. Good ways, finally, for once. Slowly, against the backdrop of a world in chaos, I found my mind.

Sometimes, My Wife wondered aloud, what she did to deserve me. After some stumbling with my feelings, I eventually settled on an answer.

I’m a Rescue.

She gave me a Home.

And, so, I gave her a Family.

It seemed fair

This Sunday, my folks, which whom I have not had a shouting match in years, will come over for dinner. We will cook and eat together. My Friend became My Wife, and she took a piece of me and with it she made Our Son. There will be many hugs, and no violence. Good Things Happened.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t know what the future holds.

don’t give up yet, ok?

It could get good, even.

[rabbitcruiser]

World Gin Day

Distilled from Juniper berries, gin is one of the sweetest, most subtly flavored liquors. Have a martini, gin and tonic, negroni, or any other gin cocktail.

Distilled spirits have been with us for a very long time, and all of  them have rich histories covering the sometimes mysterious origins of  their use. While spirits have long been used medicinally, only one  started as a medicine and then became a mixer for one of the most  important medicines in history.This delicious, smooth drink is  distilled from the berries of the Juniper tree and can trace its origins  back to an older drink from Denmark known as Jenever.

History of Gin Day

Gin Day was established by England’s own connoisseur of the  juniper-based drink, the Gin Monkey. Emma, the titular Gin Monkey, has  been a huge fan of cocktails of all kinds and has worked throughout the  Newcastle, London, and Leeds area in multiple cocktail bars. Taking this  experience to the streets she created her Gin Monkey site, put together  with the intent of saving intrepid bar-hoppers from finding the worst  of the alcohol joints at their destination.

After having had an incredibly hard time finding anything worth  drinking when she first arrived in London, she decided someone had to  solve this problem for other travelers, and it might as well be her.  Since then she’s taken a dedicated role in providing independent and  impartial views of the gin joints in her area… well, they serve more  than gin, but one is allowed to have a favorite, wouldn’t you say?

But gin has had a noble history as a medicine as well, or rather, as a  way to make medicine more palatable. Quinine is the distillation of the  ground bark of the cinchona tree, which produced a tonic that was  capable of treating malaria. Unfortunately, the quinine was incredibly  bitter, and gin was used to cut it. The flavor caught on, and to this  day, the tonic in the Gin and Tonic contains the slightest bit of  quinine to capture the flavor of the original.

The history of World Fin Day itself began in 2009, following the  efforts of an avid gin connoisseur, Neil Houston. He was already a  massive fan of gin, but wanted to find a way to bring the drink to more  people so that they could enjoy it. At the time, it looked as if other  spirits might supersede gin. So he and the “Gin Monkey” Emma Stokes,  teamed up to launch the first World Gin Day in Birmingham as a way to  popularize a gin bar. In 2010, they launched a similar event in London  and have been celebrating this juniper-based beverage like clockwork  ever since.

World Gin Day started as a tiny event in 2009, but it has since grown  to enormous proportions. In the last few years, things have really  taken off. At the last count, the organizers reached more than 200  million social media users and ran events in more than 30 countries.

Those in charge now put on a vast range of events – everything from  tasting to lectures on the drink’s origins. Prominent figures associated  with the day run masterclasses, too, where participants learn how to  make drinks. And there are even professional courses where bartenders  can up their game.

How to celebrate Gin Day

Celebrating Gin Day is best done by diving straight in and  experimenting with some of the drinks that gin has made amazing. Take a  look at Buzzfeed for a list of drinks that are out of this world, and don’t forget to check in with the Gin Monkey  to get the updated list of the best places in the world to have a  smashingly good cocktail! Gin Day is the best day (other than yesterday  and tomorrow) to have a nice Gin Cocktail!

The best way to celebrate gin day is to travel to one of the original  gin bars and try a range of mixers and cocktails. Some of the best  establishments offer “house drinks” with a unique twist you can’t get  anywhere else. While the classic drink is gin and tonic, there are now a  host of variations that you can try.

If you don’t want to travel, you can check to see whether anybody is  organizing a World Gin Day-related event in your local community. Local  gin companies will often arrange street parties where people can show up  and sample local beverages made in their area. Many of these events  also provide food and even opportunities to improve your cocktail-making  skills.

The organizers of the event have expanded their activities all over  the world. You can attend taste-testing sessions, gin-related treasure  hunts, pop-up markets focusing on gin, and garden parties. Just look for  what’s going on in your local area by visiting the official World Gin  Day website.

Finally, you can also experiment with making your own gin beverages  at home. There are dozens of recipes out there, both traditional and  modern, that you can try to emulate. Red Lake, for instance, is a gin  drink made of 1.5 oz Monkey 47 Gin, raspberry syrup, and lime juice.  Likewise, Feeling Blue is a cocktail that uses 2 oz gin mixed with lemon  juice, grapefruit bitters, tonic water, and dry Vermouth.

Gin is one of the most important liquors in the world and the basis  for some of our most beautiful drinks. Just like wine, it is possible to  become a connoisseur and learn the different tastes and subtle notes  from each producer.

Just remember to celebrate World Gin Day responsibly. Aim for merriment, not inebriation!

Source

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Sugarbird Cape Fynbos Spirits Takes Flight for World Wildlife Day

As the world geared up to celebrate World Wildlife Day on March 3, Sugarbird Cape Fynbos Spirits announced its unwavering commitment to wildlife conservation with the launch of a special initiative in the month of March.

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Happy #WorldGinDay! Maybe pour yourself a little gin and check out our video about the Gimlet, and the colonial history of gin and gin cocktails!