I've got good booze and bad news...

I was lucky enough to sit down with Fritz Maytag of Anchor Distilling to talk about their new Genevieve genever, and even see the still as they were preparing to distill some more while I was there. (The first batch they made in 1996 (700 bottles) and they've just been sitting around waiting for the market to be ready to release it.) Erik does a nice job of introducing it if you haven't heard about it before. I learned a lot about the product and their research into trying to make it in the old style (and even borrowed some books on the subject from Fritz, unfortunately most of which are in Dutch).

So that's the good news- good for me, anyway. Here's the bad.

Because they don't want to confuse consumers with two kinds of gin, Genevieve will primarily only be available at bars and restaurants. Bummer! I'm going to do my best to pry the information out of them as to where we can find it both in bars and retail and share it with my fellow drink nerds. I'll let you know what I hear.

Update: For liquor stores, it apears only Plumpjack and John Walker have it. For bars, it's listed at the Alembic, Redwood Room, Ame, Grand Pubah, Connecticut Yankee, Bacar, Jardiniere, Boulevard, Harris Steakhouse, La Terrasse, Farallon, Absinthe, Bernardus, Cappuros, Range, T Rex, Bourbon and Branch, Elbo Room, Pacific Catch, and R Bar.

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