In 1638 Theodore De Mayerne, the man latter dubbed 'The Father of English Distilling', a noted physician and alchemist joined Thomas Cademan, physician to the Queen, to found The Worshipful Company of Distillers, one of the City of London livery companies to this day. He wrote, "The infamous liquor, the name of which deriv'd from Juniper-Berries in Dutch, is now, by frequent use. The term 'tradesmen' included innkeepers, and they were the ones most likely to be forced to house unwanted soldiers.

Distilled five times to give exceptional purity our distiller has developed this blood orange gin with our chosen recipe of botanicals which include coriander, angelica, lime, cassia and nutmeg. The complainant wrote that the use of King William of Orange as branding and the alcohol by volume (ABV) of 16.We launched King William Gin after finding out he liberalised the manufacture of Gin in the UK with his first act of Parliament in 1690. Jenever was starting to flow from Holland and due to gin being grain rather than wine based, it could also be produced in England. A peel of skin from a vibrant orange - blood orange when in season - a vegetable peeler works best for this.

Hogarth’s famous etching of Gin Lane was one of a pair funded by the brewing industry to illustrate that beer consumption was far healthier for society (not to mention individuals) than drinking gin. Now most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was the greatest hack of his time and so extremely influential. Among the winners have been photographs of the gin in front of the King William mural on Belfast's Sandy Row and outside the home of Rangers Football Club in Glasgow. Anti-sectarianism charity, Nil by Mouth, told members the historical monarch was an important figure on both sides of the Irish Sea and closely associated with Protestantism.Fortuitously, the new act also helped English farmers who by selling surplus grain to the distillers were able to pay higher rents to the landowners, who dominated both houses of Parliament and whose support the king needed for his war. The social responsibility body and regulator for alcohol labelling, packaging and promotion in the UK upheld the objection finding the imagery to be “divisive and inflammatory”. Originally De Kuyper was a manufacturer of 'kuipen'; wooden barrels for transporting jenever and beer.

Distilled five times for "exceptional purity", the gin is made using carefully selected botanicals including orange peel, coriander, angelica, lime, cassia and nutmeg to create a "fresh, vibrant spirit" that is "bursting with plenty of orange citrus notes".Few records survive from this period and the first written proof that Bols distilled juniper is a 1664 record of Bols purchasing juniper berries. It found it “unusual” to see the number presented to two decimal places, and considered it “intentional” to directly associate the number with a year. As part of the conflict with France, William naturally sought to weaken his enemy's economy, so started the English blockade against French goods. Famous for jenever and liqueurs, De Kuyper was established in 1695 when newly wed Petrus de Kuyper founded the firm in Horst in Limburg, in the south of the Netherlands. Heavily subsidised English malted barley exports provided the basis for the rapid expansion of the Dutch distilling industry during the early 18th century.

Nil by Mouth explained: “In the context of Glasgow, the city topped the table for number of religiously aggravated arrests every year, in many of which alcohol played a part, and that issues with religious prejudice since the reformation were indisputable. A DRINKS firm hope to rival Buckfast in parts of Scotland after launching fortified wine named after King Billy- with an alcohol proof of 16.The recipe, which was amazingly uncovered in the British Library's rare book section, lists the original ingredients but unfortunately, the quantities were concealed by code, which proved unbreakable. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. At that time French brandy was the most popular spirit in Britain; rum was not established; whiskey was only enjoyed by the Scots and the Irish; and vodka was hundreds of years away from breaking out of Poland and Russia. The poorest people began drinking more gin less responsibly, meanwhile, royalty and high society sipped tamely as more of a fashion statement than an emotional or psychological release.