Rose-colored drinks are trendy, at least if you look around the food bloggers' social media channels.
Whether with gin and tonic, cocktail or wine: the color seems to be extremely photogenic.
A Berlin gin has recently been added to the rosé drinks.
The spirits manufacturer Berliner Brandstifter has released an Aged Gin that hits the reddish color spectrum.
Company founder Vincent Honrodt let the special edition mature in red wine barrels for six months.
Only 1999 bottles were filled in the end.
It is the fourth limited edition that the Berlin entrepreneur is bringing out.
In 2009 Honrodt founded the schnapps distillery.
A little bit he felt a family tradition, the great-grandfather was the director of a sugar factory near Berlin, you can read on the company website.
Honrodt has been experimenting with special blends of gin since 2018.
Linden blossoms and Pinot Noir barrels
This time the wood of the wine barrels soaked in Pinot Noir grapes gives the schnapps its dark color.
The taste of the alcohol was refined with linden blossoms, in addition to the herbs commonly used in Berlin's Brandstifter, such as mallow and elder blossoms.
And how does it taste on ice?
A strong juniper note rises from the glass, which is so typical of this spirit.
The first time you sip, the honey-thick sweetness of the linden blossom joins it.
The manufacturer recommends "a light tonic" if you want to dilute the 50.3% alcohol, which is very strong.
In any case, it should be a tonic that does not contain too much of its own sugar, we would like to add, because the combination brings out the almost floral note of linden blossom even more.
Incidentally, the color of the spirit is more reddish-orange.
Perhaps that should also be a warning, because this Berlin gin has nothing in common with the more harmless rosé drinks.