How To Find Your Ancestral Spirits with Johnny Neill, Berkshire Botanical

Not everyone was born to be in the drinks industry, our guest was, but he just didn’t know how much,  until he just happened to sign up with ancestry.com.

I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.

Johnny Neill knew all about his father’s connection to the gin world from as far back as the 18th C, but it took a membership to ancestry.com to find out that the other side of his family was busy making whisky at about the same time.   

Now with the success of Whitley Neill, he’s making expressions tied to the culinary proclivities of specific members of his family - quince, raspberry and now his own.

He’s here today to tell us how it all came to be.

Our cocktail of the week is the Yattendon Martini:

Ingredients:

• 50ml Berkshire Botanical Dry Gin
• 10ml Lillet
• 10ml Pine Cordial

Method:

Put all the ingredients in a coupe glass, stir, garnish with a Pine Needle.

You can find this recipe, more gin recipes and all the cocktails of the week at ALushLifeManual.com, where you’ll also find all the ingredients in our shop. 

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Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation,” and always drink responsibly!

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