Gin the Manual: How to Enjoy Gin in All Its Forms

Nominated for Tales of the Cocktails Spirited Awards 2021

This is a book about how to drink gin of all kinds.

It’s about classic gins and new-generation gins, about gins from all over the world. It’s about gin enjoyed with tonic and Sicilian lemonade. About the perfect martini gin and the best gin for a negroni. It’s about juniper-heavy and delicate aromatic gins. About gin cocktails that ooze style and personality. Above all it’s about enjoying your gin in ways you never thought possible.

With more gin brands available than ever before, it is the time to set out what makes gin special, what its flavors are and how to get the most out of the brands you buy.

Praise for the first edition of Gin: The Manual:
’You could not write a more sophisticated book or pack more detail onto each page...it is rocket science impressive’- Huffington Post

Award-winning author and whisky expert Dave Broom has been writing about whisky for 25 years as a journalist and author. He has written eight books, two of which (Drink! and Rum) won the Glenfiddich Award for Drinks Book of the Year. He has also won the Glenfiddich Award for Drinks Writer of the Year twice and recently won the extremely prestigious IWSC Communicator of the Year Award. In 2015 Tales of the Cocktail presented Dave with the Best Cocktail & Spirits award, soon to be followed by the Golden Spirit Award in 2016.

Over his two decades in the field, Dave has built up a considerable international following with regular training/educational visits to France, Holland, Germany, the USA and Japan. His remit has covered consumer features as well as business reports. He is also actively involved in whisky education, acting as a consultant to major distillers on tasting techniques as well as teaching professionals and the public. He was also one of the developers of Diageo’s generic whisky tasting tool, the Flavor Map.