Support Local Distilleries By Drinking Any Of These South African Gins

Gin has gone through a bit of a resurgence in recent years, it is all grown up and has started to make a name for itself with a brand new image. What started out as a cheap-and-not-so-cheerful backstreet spirit on the streets of London has gone on to become synonymous with sophisticated society as an all-rounder spirit for cocktails, with tonic or even in its most recent guise - straight, on the rocks, allowing for an appreciation of its unique mix of botanicals. Something hipsters can talk for hours about, and gosh, we don't need to add more fuel to that conversational fire, do we?

Gins popularity has not excluded South Africa, and we've seen exponential growth in local distilleries. Locally made craft gins with unique African and fynbos infused flavours are hitting our shelves South Africans love it. 

If you're not aware gin is good for you and what better way is there to look after your health than having your favourite drink and supporting the local businesses, because local is lekker, gin is lekker so why not have a lekker time while you're at it.

So in the interest of drinking local, let's have a look at what South African made Gins are currently available for our tasting pleasure.

South African made Gins

1. Amari Ocean Gin
2. Black Meerkat Gin
3. Black Mountain Gin
4. Blind Tiger Gin
5. Bloedlemoen Handcrafted Gin
6. Cape Town Gin Co
7. ClemenGold Gin
8. Cruxland Gin
9. Die Mas Kalahari Dry Gin
10. Distillery 031 Durban Dry Gin
11. Durbanville Distillery Gin
12. Flowstone Wild African Botanicals Gin
13. Geometric Gin
14. Ginifer Small Batch Handcrafted
15. Ginny Fowl Gin
16. Ginologist floral Gin
17. Hope on Hopkins Gin
18. Inverroche Gin
19. Jorgensen’s Original Gin
20. Monks Mary Jane
21. Musgrave Pink Gin Botanicals
22. New Harbour Distillery Gin
23. Orient Gin
24. Pienaar & Son Orient Gin
25. Prohibition Gin - Silver Creek Distillery
26. Rooibos Gin
27. Six Dogs Karoo Gin
28. Southern Cross Gin
29. Sugar Bird Fynbos Gin
30. The Drought Edition Gin
31. The Generals Gin
32. Time Anchor Distillery
33. Triple Three African Botanicals Gin
34. Westcliff Copper distilled Gin
35. Wilderer Fynbos Gin
36. Wixworth Gin
37. Woodstock Gin Inception Beer Base

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