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Orange Gin: 5 Brands to Try and How to Make Your Own
Colored and flavored gin brand trends have come and gone throughout the years featuring bottles filled with infused flavors and colorful rainbow hues. Coming to you here are five orange gin brands utilizing an array of oranges known and found in certain regions of the world that provide a unique experience of flavor bursting cocktails.
Although orange gin can be created using different fruits and herbs that result in the bright color, like clementines, saffron, and floral notes, we have chosen to focus on a few orange based spirits that provide both the color and flavor of orange in each sip. So which orange gin brands should you try? How to make your own? Meet the brands,
Beefeater Blood Orange Gin:
With inspiration dating back to 1876 comes a zest-filled blood orange infused gin featuring 10 botanicals. The flavors of juniper and orange are front and center with a sweet yet tangy flavor, while the spirit is balanced perfectly to be enjoyed on its own or in a cocktail.
Chase Seville Marmalade Gin:
A mix of sweet meets crisp with the use of fresh oranges and orange peels. Unlike most gin brands, Chase Seville uses apples as the base of their spirit, creating a more fruity taste. Mixed with the sweetness of Seville oranges, juniper and herbs are also added as a balancing element that results in a gin that is fruity and fresh.
Malfy Con Aranica:
A taste of sunshine in a bottle. Malfy uses the combination of Italian oranges with Sicilian blood oranges to create a handpicked vibrant citrus flavor. The use of the two oranges results in a pure and potent orange flavor that is hard to miss and is instantly noticeable when opening the bottle.
Tanqueray Flor de Sevilla Distilled Gin:
Tanqueray provides a bittersweet taste with hints of the Mediterranean by the use of Sevilla oranges for a zesty and fruitful flavor. Although the recipe has been around for a while, it took 140 years for it to see the light of day and become an award winning gin. Suggestion from the makers, enjoy best with plenty of ice and some tonic water to fully experience the flavor.
Whitley Neille:
Handcrafted with Sicilian blood oranges, the bright spirit provides a zesty aroma with a clean and crisp taste in every sip. Inspired by the Mediterranean, the brand provides a bright and sweet flavor mixed with herbal roots and spices that bring it all together. The potent flavor is best if mixed into cocktails but can be enjoyed on its own.
The process is easier than expected. Start by picking your favorite gin, we suggest ones with notes of citrus already in it, and steep it with your choice of orange citrus. Anything from blood oranges, clementines, tangerines, region specific oranges. Allow the peels and rind, the white part of the peel, to sit in the gin for a few days to a few weeks and absorb the color and flavor before serving it in your favorite gin cocktail.
