Hot Gin Roof Returns With A Poke

The hot gin roof returns to ham yard hotel this month running in partnership with craft gin pioneers sipsmith.

Hot gin roof returns with a poke.

The pokers technical term loggerheads are a historical tool used to heat your cocktail to sizzling hawt. Ham yard hotel and sipsmith return this january from 24 january with their latest twist on the popular hot gin roof experience and celebration of all things gin. Come january sipsmith will be taking up a month long residency with 90 minute gin sessions taking place on the roof. In distillery news january 3 2018.

Pioneers of the gin revival sipsmith was london s first copper pot distillery for nearly two hundred years opening its doors in 2009 on a mission to bring back london dry gin to the city where it made its name. Get cosy under woollen blankets on the candlelit roof terrace with views over the rooftops of soho as you discover exciting new gin cocktails alongside low and no alcohol options. Sipsmith brings back to london an old concept reinvented with the classics. After sell out success last year hot gin pioneers sipsmith and ham yard hotel are thrilled to announce the return of hot gin roof this time with a dramatic treat for the gin loving senses.

Back by popular demand hot gin roof returns with a poke. Not only was gin first sipped hot but it was. The hot gin roof event runs from 6pm on wednesday january 17 until saturday february 17 for 90 minute sessions. All sipsmith spirits are handcrafted in small batches driven by the belief that this is the only way to craft spirits of such high.

The concept pays homage to gin cocktails from the 1920 s back in a time before central heating where hot gin was served to keep londoners warm. Hot gin roof returns with a poke. As we cosied up and sipped away we read through the menu of cocktails on offer. Firmdale hotel s group mixologist eoin kenny and sipsmith master distiller jared brown have delved back into the history books and discovered that not only was gin first sipped hot before there was access to central heating but also that historically these drinks were heated using a red hot poker taken straight from the fire.

Hot gin roof is making a return to this swanky sky high rooftop for 2018. Now a firm date in the winter diary hot gin roof is returning to the private roof terrace of this beautiful hotel with a historically based menu of all new cocktails set to. This tasty delight has since been lost. This year sipsmith master distiller jared brown and firmdale hotel s group mixologist eoin kenny have delved into the history books once again and made a rather surprising discovery.

From 24 january guests are invited to enjoy gin cocktails amid the chic surroundings of the hotel s private roof terrace. Ham yard hotel and sipsmith the passionate pioneers of london s gin renaissance return this january with their latest twist on the popular hot gin roof experience.