Gin

Gin is a distilled spirit whose predominant flavor comes from juniper berries, distilled together with a range of other botanicals such as coriander, citrus peel and angelica root depending on the style. It developed from the Dutch and Flemish spirit jenever and became especially associated with England from the seventeenth century onward, including the notorious Gin Craze of the early eighteenth century when cheap gin flooded London. London dry gin, a drier, more juniper-forward style with no sweetening added after distillation, became the dominant modern style despite its name no longer requiring London production. Gin is the base spirit of many classic cocktails, most famously the gin and tonic and the martini.