The Little Red Berry Company are a multi-award winning company based near Ripon. They have been producing alcoholic liqueurs and flavoured gins since 2011 when they took their first Yorkshire gins to Otley Show for locals to sample. Their more recent offering, Hedgerow Gin, is crafted in small batches and brings together the flavours of crab apple, nettle leaf, sloes, elderflowers, and rosehip. Sloemotion recommends serving this with a dash of tonic and a sprig of thyme. Fruoco, Jonathan (2017). Les Faits et Gestes de Robin des Bois. Poèmes, ballades et saynètes. UGA Editions. ISBN 9782377470136.

David Baldwin identifies Robin Hood with the historical outlaw Roger Godberd, who was a die-hard supporter of Simon de Montfort, which would place Robin Hood around the 1260s. [118] [119] There are certainly parallels between Godberd's career and that of Robin Hood as he appears in the Gest. John Maddicott has called Godberd "that prototype Robin Hood". [120] Some problems with this theory are that there is no evidence that Godberd was ever known as Robin Hood and no sign in the early Robin Hood ballads of the specific concerns of de Montfort's revolt. [121] Robin Hood of WakefieldWhitby Yorkshire Gin is distilled with botanicals from both the land and sea, from the Yorkshire Moors to Scarborough beach. By combining dry botanicals such as Heather flower with the seas forgotten sugar kelp and pepper dulse, each bottle is distilled with Harrogate aquifer water for a crystal finish. Their expert flavours consist of Bramble and Bay, Wild Old Tom and a special Barghest Limited edition. York Gin

We love being in the heart of Sheffield and in the very birthplace of stainless steel. Portland Works is an important social community project – it’s not only preserving a building of enormous cultural and historical significance, but it’s an amazing space where small manufacturing, independent artists and craftspeople are continuing Sheffield’s creative tradition.”All of their Yorkshire gins are quadruple distilled and 100% vapour infused and they all sound equally delicious. We particularly like the sound of ‘Purple Ram’ which is described as having “A sweet nose of spicy orange, a smooth citrus palate and a balanced juniper finish.” Around this time, according to popular opinion, a certain outlaw named Robin Hood, with his accomplices, infested Sherwood and other law-abiding areas of England with continuous robberies'. [133] Nottinghamshire Robin Hood has been depicted on Nottinghamshire's county flag since 2011. [134] With tonic, the fresh plants are loud. The citrus and elderflower take over once more, filling the mouth with green at such a pace that it feels like (a far tastier version of) expanding foam. Pink grapefruit citrus steals its way through to the centre too, given a loud and lively voice by the acerbic quinine. It’s a very sweet, very enjoyable G&T, with a transporting freshness that fills the mouth with a keen sense of the outdoors. a b "Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham". Lib.rochester.edu. Archived from the original on 18 August 2010 . Retrieved 12 March 2010. Crook, David "The Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood: The Genesis of the Legend?" In Peter R. Coss, S.D. Lloyd, ed. Thirteenth Century England University of Newcastle (1999).

Another view on the origin of the name is expressed in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica which remarks that "hood" was a common dialectical form of "wood" (compare Dutch hout, pronounced /hʌut/, also meaning "wood"), and that the outlaw's name has been given as "Robin Wood". [98] There are a number of references to Robin Hood as Robin Wood, or Whood, or Whod, from the 16th and 17th centuries. The earliest recorded example, in connection with May games in Somerset, dates from 1518. [99] Early references "Robin shoots with Sir Guy" by Louis Rhead If you’re looking for something with an extra punch, their Navy strength gin, Outlaw, is a dangerous 57% and inspired by the city’s oldest villains.

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Stapleton, Alfred (1899). Robin Hood: the Question of His Existence Discussed, More Particularly from a Nottinghamshire Point of View. Sissons and son. pp.17–. Robin Hood and the Monk". Lib.rochester.edu. Archived from the original on 24 December 2009 . Retrieved 12 March 2010. Johnson's "The Sad Shepherd" ". Lib.rochester.edu. Archived from the original on 4 April 2010 . Retrieved 12 March 2010. Through retellings, additions, and variations, a body of familiar characters associated with Robin Hood has been created. These include his lover, Maid Marian; his band of outlaws, the Merry Men; and his chief opponent, the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Sheriff is often depicted as assisting Prince John in usurping the rightful but absent King Richard, to whom Robin Hood remains loyal. He became a popular folk figure in the Late Middle Ages, and his partisanship of the common people and opposition to the Sheriff are some of the earliest-recorded features of the legend, whereas his political interests and setting during the Angevin era developed in later centuries. The earliest known ballads featuring him are from the 15th century. Hutton, Ronald (1997). The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-288045-4.

York Gin Cocoa is distilled using cocoa beans from York Cocoa Works to give it a unique and intensely satisfying flavour along with the unmistakable aroma of chocolate. A wonderfully fitting tribute to York’s history of chocolate production. Roberts, Kai (20 March 2010). "Robin Hood's Grave, Kirklees Park". Ghosts and Legends of the Lower Calder Valley. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016 . Retrieved 13 June 2016. Doel, Fran; Doel, Geoff (2000). Robin Hood: Outlaw and Greenwood Myth. Tempus Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7524-1479-8. Another reference, discovered by Julian Luxford in 2009, appears in the margin of the " Polychronicon" in the Eton College library. Written around the year 1460 by a monk in Latin, it says: The earliest preserved script of a Robin Hood play is the fragmentary Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham [27] This apparently dates to the 1470s and circumstantial evidence suggests it was probably performed at the household of Sir John Paston. This fragment appears to tell the story of Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne. [48] There is also an early playtext appended to a 1560 printed edition of the Gest. This includes a dramatic version of the story of Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar and a version of the first part of the story of Robin Hood and the Potter. (Neither of these ballads are known to have existed in print at the time, and there is no earlier record known of the "Curtal Friar" story). The publisher describes the text as a ' playe of Robyn Hood, verye proper to be played in Maye games', but does not seem to be aware that the text actually contains two separate plays. [49] An especial point of interest in the "Friar" play is the appearance of a ribald woman who is unnamed but apparently to be identified with the bawdy Maid Marian of the May Games. [50] She does not appear in extant versions of the ballad.

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David Hepworth, "A Grave Tale", in Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval, ed. by Helen Phillips (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005) pp. 91–112 (p. 94.)