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| | Gin jumps back into the bar limelight |
 | | Gin is made by distilling grain mash alcohol over juniper berries and any number of other botanicals including citrus peel, caraway, coriander, angelica, licorice, anise, almond and cassia bark. |
 | | Most modern gins are distilled by first cooking batches of grain mash (usually corn, sometimes with a little barley and rye), then putting the fermented mash in a large continuous still, causing the heated vapors to rise through the still and condense into a high-proof spirit. |
 | | Plymouth gin is a distinct style historically associated, since 1793, with the British Navy and the port of Plymouth, England. |
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