You can now make your own gin at home... but should you? We found out.
Contributed by on Jan 20, 2014
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Making your own booze can be a nightmare of misunderstood directions, expensive equipment, and accidentally blowing your house up. Lucky for you, a DC company has launched the Homemade Gin Kit, a quick, fairly foolproof way to transform your vodka into gin in a matter of 36 hours without even requiring a bathtub, though you are fully encouraged to drink the finished product in the bath.
But is it really that easy... or very good? To find out, we made a batch and put it up against other gins from the bottom and top shelf. Then we took a long, hot bath... mainly because we spilled gin everywhere.
The Process
Making this hooch is really easy, since you're not distilling. All you do is score a fifth of mid-grade vodka (which isn't included), then dump the included juniper berries in the bottle using the funnel in the box. After 24hrs, you dump in a jar of botanicals that includes coriander, rosemary, rose hips and other spices that are kind of boring so will now be referred to as Gin Tang.
Once you add those in, shake it up and put it in a dark place -- not the one you go to when you hear Nickelback -- for another 12hrs.
