A new Brit Brockmans gin will hit the shelves in November

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1. Alex

   18 October 2008 11:42 am

   Brockmans is a gin with a difference. It is by far the smoothest gin I have tasted and on the rocks, as they recommend it, it is simply delicious after dinner. I bought a bottle online at http://www.thedrinkshop.com and I really would say it is now my favourite tipple.

2. Anna Smith

   14 May 2009 10:32 am

   I tried this drink and have to say it has a very strange after taste. I also found I had a terrible headache within an hour of one glass. Worrying.

3. PW

   26 May 2009 01:25 pm

   New western gins eh? Wait until the you get to experience the flavour of the worlds oldest gin recipe to be launched in the near future. Then you will understand what a traditional gin over ice is. No berries, no lemon, no lime, no headaches either.

4. The King of Gin

   31 August 2009 02:54 pm

   Class Magazine on Brockmans: “In the last issue of CLASS magazine we made a decision based entirely on good-will – someone obviously caught Simon soon after his 4pm refreshing beer. As a favour to a then unheard-of gin company we ran a page of advertising for free as they had already paid the previous publisher. We had just got our baby back and we were feeling charitable.

   Since running the advertisement, we have had the misfortune to taste their ‘gin’ and our notes are as follows: The producers of Brockmans take a traditional distillate made by distilling neutral spirits with fairly classic botanicals and then (in our opinion) ruin it by cold compounding a berry essence. The result is a spirit that smells more reminiscent of boiled sweets than gin. As for the palate, if you were tasting Brockmans we very much doubt you would mistake it for a gin. Why did they add that fruit essence but not a simple apostrophe? We consider it shameful to the wider gin category to label this a gin, let alone a “premium gin”. We won’t be accepting this brand’s advertisements at any price. Brockmans is barred from CLASS.”

5. Bernard Jackson-Smyth

   31 October 2009 06:04 pm

   I sampled this gin recently at a party in a cocktail and boy did it make me ill the next morning – and I only had one. It’s shocking stuff and quite frankly smells like boiled sweets, is over-flavoured and quite frankly rank. The bottle looks nice but don’t taste the poison inside.

6. Gary Nelson

   2 November 2009 07:49 pm

   Tried this gin in Manchester at the Chicago evening and loved it – words like poison – sound like you have a bitter taste in your mouth!!

   The gin is new and I love it – as I am sure others do to. I agree with Alex and a plethora of others I am sure.

7. Eric Jackson

   10 December 2009 02:41 pm

   Tried this. It’s basically just a flavoured vodka. Not a very nice one at that.

8. Peter Parker

   17 December 2009 02:39 pm

   I personally tried lots of these new “gins” and they are not real gins. Flavoured vodka is indeed the best description for them. Stop pretending. One I liked however is Sipsmith – much cheaper and far more appealing than Brockmans.