At the end of the seventeenth century, a Dutch physician, Franciscus de la Boe, in an attempt to invent a medicine for sore stomach addressed to the troops engaged in the Indies, began to macerate berries of juniper and other herbs in alcohol rye, then distilling it all into a pot still.
The aromatic drink thus obtained was immediately very pleasing to the soldiers, though with little effect healing, becoming in a short Dutch national drink. Following the gin was discovered by British troops committed during those years in the Netherlands.
The distillate, as well as providing warmth and distraction to the troops, had the merit of increasing boldness. The British, coming back from the Dutch countryside known gin then did all over the world
The aromatic drink thus obtained was immediately very pleasing to the soldiers, though with little effect healing, becoming in a short Dutch national drink. Following the gin was discovered by British troops committed during those years in the Netherlands.
The distillate, as well as providing warmth and distraction to the troops, had the merit of increasing boldness. The British, coming back from the Dutch countryside known gin then did all over the world
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