Southsea Spirit Tropical Gin 40%

Description

Southsea Spirit Tropical Gin is a collaboration between  The Gin Emporium, Southsea and Corner Fifty Three Distilling.

Corner Fifty Three Distilling (C53) is based in Clanfield, Hampshire just on the edge of the South Downs National Park. It was a project five years in the making and eventually came to fruition in 2016. It was founded by bartender Tom Rudman who, after 4 years of mixology and creating cocktails, set out to make his perfect gin. 

The Corner Fifty Three set -up is small, it consists of a small distillery in Tom’s parents’ back garden with two, hand-built copper stills Christened Rosie and Angus. The stills are 60 litre split top copper pot still which operate in 8 hours shifts and the lowest possibly temperature to ensure the spirit collected is as smooth as possible. In a hunt to find the most PH stable water for their gin, Corner Fifty Three use Hildon natural mineral water. The pure, clean spring water is high in mineral and contributes to the smoothness of the gin. Everything is crafted by hand in small batches, or as Tom puts it “in ridiculously small batches”.

Southsea Spirit Tropical Gin is an Old Tom style of gin made in the bathtub style. The base spirit is a high quality organic grain spirit. This is flavoured with organic juniper, coriander and lemon peel to create the base gin an then toasted fresh coconut and ripe pineapple is added to intensify the flavours before adding extra zing with fresh naval orange peel. The final product is a true liquid sunshine – perfect for that tropical state of mind!