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Review: Mythology Needle Pig Gin

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In the event you thought spirits branding couldn’t get extra creative, you had been very flawed. In line with their press supplies, Colorado’s Mythology Distillery is a small craft operation impressed by an Alaskan ski journey and a philosophy that we every kind our personal mythology by our travels and experiences. How that pertains to a line of craft whiskey, gin, vodka, and rum, I’m nonetheless not fairly certain. Even much less clear is why every bottle is constructed round a particular “spirit animal.” I get the mythology connection, however there’s virtually nothing in the best way of clarification on the web site. Anyway.

Mythology Distillery despatched us their Needle Pig Gin. You learn that proper. Needle Pig. Close to as I can inform, it’s one thing like a porcupine, and it occurs to be this explicit gin’s spirit animal inspiration. As for what is definitely on this gin, it’s a dry fashionable gin distilled with six pure botanicals: Italian juniper, coriander seed, orris root, grapefruit peel, star anise, and sage. I’m making an attempt to cease this creepy little man on the label, so let’s leap in earlier than it eats me.

The aroma is dry with notes of pine needles, rose water, and a contact of candied citrus. It’s all a bit soapy at instances however nonetheless nice, the sage providing a fragile counterpoint to the juniper. The palate is a contact too candy with a mixture of tree sap, fleshy citrus, black licorice, and cinnamon sugar. The physique is well-built for martinis, and there’s a gentle spice that builds into the end. Outdoors of the juniper, the opposite flavors are a bit muted, leaving this one to chop a reasonably conventional, pine-forward profile till a little bit of lemony citrus arrives on the end. Stable stuff with some really wacky branding, however hey, I doubt I’ll neglect the identify.

90 proof.

B+ / $32 / mythologydistillery.com [BUY IT NOW FROM DRIZLY]

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