http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/ Welcome to Been there. Your tips on the places you know - that you love, live in or have just visited - are what make this guide. http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8144 Gin. Not quite the strength of Gordon’s but with a wide range of flavours. A trip round the gin factory will educate the taste buds. Menorcan gin is made from a grape distilled spirit, not cereal based as ours is. The juniper now comes from the mainland but the distilling process continues to be done in copper stills.
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As well as the usual Bols jenevers, this delightful small bar has a large range of flavoured gins (including liquorice and a salty one), aged 5 & 10 year old gins and bitters (their own brand Olofspoortje Bitter is on my desk at the moment - a very nice bitter orange 30%).

The bar is on the corner of the main Red Light area, not far from Centraal Station. I went on a busy evening & approached from the wrong direction, past hoards of drunken English tourists trying to find somewhere to get ... well, what do people go here for?

But this historic bar was nice & quiet - about 10 Dutch people (including two who were tourists), and a small party of Japanese who were shown into a back room for a 'tutored tasting'. I stayed & tried to understand as much Dutch as I could, whilst selecting the more unusual jenevers.

Beer, cheese and other snacks are also available.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7522