The history of gin spans hundreds of years. Beefeater Gin is a significant part of the story (find out about our origins), with our distillery first being founded in 1820. While we have moved locations, our gin has stood the test of time and is now the only historic dry gin still produced in the heart of London.
If you’ve ever been sipping your drink and wondered where gin was invented or who first produced it, this article reveals all. We’ll start in the Mediterranean before taking a trip to The Netherlands and that’s all before we explore how gin’s steep increase in popularity caused chaos in the UK capital. Are you ready? Let’s get going.