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Liquorice root
Liquorice root is one of the botanicals commonly included in gin.
Role
Common secondary botanical in gin.
In gin
Liquorice root appears in the list of botanicals commonly included in gin given by Parr, Sutherland and Fisk (2024), and "liquorice" is one of the five sensory attributes used to describe dry gins in the earlier work they cite.
How it connects
Style
- ingredient-of London gin (London dry gin)
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- StyleLondon gin (London dry gin)Legal category
- MethodColumn still (Coffey still)Distillation
- StoryFrom juniper water to London ginSchiedam, the Dutch genever town, Netherlands
IngredientJuniperJuniperus communis L. (EU law also allows J. oxycedrus for juniper-flavoured spirit drinks and genever)- MethodVapour infusionFlavouring
- HistoryEU spirit drinks regulation (2019)17 April 2019 (applies from 25 May 2021)
- IngredientAngelica rootAngelica archangelica (root)
IngredientCassia barkCinnamomum cassia (bark), the species shown in the illustration; sources do not specify the species used by distillers
IngredientCitrus peel (orange and lemon)Citrus × sinensis, Citrus × limon and related citrus (peel)
IngredientCoriander seedCoriandrum sativum (seed)