Bluecoat Gin
Blue Coat Gin
Seth Hosko talks about Bluecoat and the phenomenal branding behind this amazing American Micro Gin! Source: www.sethhosko.com
Bluecoat Gin rocks!! I mean this is awesome gin. Bluecoat is distilled in small batches (1,000 bottles). The taste is incredible. At 94 proof, it’s super easy, smooth, and refreshing to drink on the rocks.
The brainchild of this American-Made Micro Gin is Andrew Auwerda, President of Philadelphia Distilling. One of the coolest things about Bluecoat is the organic ingrediants! Organic juniper berries and organic American citrus peels of sweet orange and lemon vibrantly flavor this micro distilled gin. I love Philadelphia Distilling’s motto:
“Be Revolutionary!”
Blue Coat Gin - Philadelphia Distilling
Bluecoat goes through a rigorous handcrafted process. The distillation takes ten hours via an extremely slow heating of the of the pot. Robert John Cassell, Master Distiller, hand selects only the most pure distillate to blend with triple filtered water to achieve the 94 proof. Once this meticulous task is complete, the final product is passed through a spirit filter and tasted. The Master Distiller must again approve the batch before it is bottled, corked and packed.
Why do people drink gin from England? In 1776, the Americans fought and destroyed the British for independence. A lot of dead and injured Americans resulted. The war was fought, on some level, over the British taxes on liquor that drove a lot distillers to Kentucky and Tennessee. The British were bullies.
Bluecoat Gin just proves that the big, deep-pocketed, mass-producing gin companies like Barcardi’s Bombay Sapphire or James Burrough’s Beefeater lack the talent and know-how of making good gin. If I was a Bombay or Beefeater executive, I would recruit Robert John Cassell to make a better gin.
Highly recommended! Bluecoat Gin won “Best Gin” of 2009 at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Bluecoat takes Gin to a whole new level.
Drinking Bluecoat Gin makes one proud to be an American!
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MicroLiquor’s favorite Bluecoat Gin cocktail!
BLUE COAT THE FIX
2 oz. Bluecoat, 1/2 oz. mint flavored syrup, complete with ginger ale and lemon peel garnish.
Serve in a collins glass over ice.
2 Comments
What century were you born? I thought all that stuff was forgotten long ago. Just ‘cos its got US on the bottle doesn’t mean its good, that sort of complacency gave us the Pinto. But I agree on one thing, big isn’t better either, and the offerings from the big distillers, and i’d include William Grant’s Hendrick’s in that group are by no means the best. For that in my bar I go for Martin Miller’s Gin who kicked off this whole gin revolution – to use that word again – back in 1998. Without them there would be no Bluecoat Gin. FYI Martin Millers has won Double Golds at San Francisco for four years in a row.
I used to wholesale it in California… great stuff and my bartender customers loved it… not because it was a US gin but after tasting it!!