A Gin with an youthful appearance, light notes of hops but with a fresh and citric ending palate. It transmits the mystic message that one can create his/her own luck , therefore its name – Gin 13. The bottle design also approaches both the unlucky number and luck symbolism, thus the use of the black cat, clover and skulls. The 13th ingredient of this Gin is the hop, which tends to be also used in beer brewing.
Gin 13 is the first Portuguese gin with 13 botanicals in its recipe: juniper, coriander seed, lemon, tangerine, cardamom, ginger, almond, angelica root, liquorice, lemon grass, jasmine flower, black tea and hops. It is distilled in traditional Portuguese stills: the alcohol is distilled from cereals four times, then distilled again with all the botanicals added, except for the lemon and the lemon grass, which are added to the botanicals basket.
I just tried Gin 13 in Lisbon and it was amazing. The botanicals give it a really nice flavor.