Old Tom Gin

Old Tom Gin

Old Tom Gin (or Tom Gin or Old Tom) is a lightly sweetened Gin popular in 18th-century England that now is rarely available. It is slightly sweeter than London Dry, but slightly drier than Dutch/Holland Gin/Jenever, and is thus sometimes called The Missing Link.[1]

The name Old Tom Gin purportedly came from wooden plaques shaped like a black cat (an "Old Tom") mounted on the outside wall of some pubs above a public walkway in the 18th century England. Owing to a scandalous news report of a tragedy involving a murdered family, gin was outlawed and went underground, changing from a cloudy liquid to its modern clear form so as to appear like water. After a pedestrian deposited a penny in the cat's mouth, they would place their lips around a small tube between the cat's paws. From the tube would come a shot of Gin, poured by the bartender inside the pub.[2]

Old Tom Gin was formerly made under license by a variety of distillers around the world; however one was recently relaunched by Hayman's distillery based on an original recipe.[3] Since then a number of other companies have followed suit such as, Both's, Secret Treasures, Jensens, Ransom and even The Dorchester Hotel. [4]The first written record of Old Tom Gin being used in the Tom Collins cocktail was the 1891 book, The Flowing Bowl: When and What to Drink.[5]

References

  1. ^ Cocktail-DB - Profile (accessed 21 June 2008)
  2. ^ http://www.oldtomgin.co.uk/oldtomgin3.html Old Tom Gin
  3. ^ Oh-Gosh-Old Tom Gin (accessed 21 June 2008)
  4. ^ Summer Fruit Cup - Tasting of 10 Old Toms (accessed 13 March 2011)
  5. ^ Schmidt, William (1891). The Flowing Bowl: When and what to Drink : Full Instructions how to Prepare, Mix, and Serve Beverages. C.L. Webster. pp. 179. http://books.google.com/books?id=iTgEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA179&dq=%22tom+collins%22+gin+date:1800-1900&lr=&as_brr=3#PPA179,M1. Retrieved 25 November 2008. 

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