The Tea Rooms Gin has been chosen and is now in stock

The Tea Rooms Gin has been chosen and is now in stock.

James Birchall, owner of the Tea Rooms in Birkdale has commissioned Birkdale Craft Distillery to produce a Tea Rooms labelled premium Gin. Following the phenomenal reception of Birkdale Gin, the same format of a blind tasting of a panel of 5 gins, scoring them on 4 characteristics was used on the evening of the 14^th March.

Hosted by Damian Bond of the Birkdale Craft Distillery, each gin contained the same set of botanicals, but the amounts used varied between them. It builds on the Unique Gin concept which allows the consumer to blend their own bespoke gin.

Using a system called BLIC, each taster scored the different gins for their BALANCE (do the flavours balance with the level of alcohol, or is one harsher than another?); LENGTH (does the taste linger or disappear straight away?); INTENSITY (Can you easily recognise the strongest flavours?) and COMPLEXITY (Is there more than one defining taste?).

It was a very close call Blend No 3 scoring 201 out of a maximum of 300.  The closest runner up was blend no 4 with a tantalisingly close 199 – just 2 points between them.

Damian retired behind the bar and produced the first bottle of Tea Rooms Gin, which was auctioned there and then. Along with donations, this raised £355 bring the total raised for ParkinsonsUK by this and previous gin tasting events to £655.

ParkinsonsUKs is Damian’s choice of charity in reflection that his father had suffered with the disease. Initially diagnosed as having Alzheimer’s disease he later developed Parkinson’s symptoms as well in a condition called Dementia with Lewy Bodies, before he died 18 years ago.

The Tea Rooms is located a couple of doors down from Birkdale train station and buses run frequently from Southport town centre. There is street parking outside the Tea Rooms, with most having 2 hours parking. Alternatively park in the nearby train station car park for free parking all day.

Photo: Damian Bond of the Birkdale Craft Distillery

Damian said “It is a real pleasure to work with the James and his customers to provide them with their premium house gin. It was a great night for all and the closeness of the scores shows both the quality and the flexibility of the blending approach.

I would be interested to work with any local restaurant, golf club, hotel or bar that wants to offer their own label high end gin, so please contact me at damian.bond@birkdaledistillery.com if that is of interest.”

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