Berkshire Ethereal Gin
Full disclosure time: I don’t write a lot of gin reviews for Paste. In fact, strike that: Until now, I haven’t ever written a gin review for Paste.
It’s not that I don’t like gin, but more a factor of the self-fulfilling cycle that applies to both beer and spirits writing. When you primarily write about craft beer and whiskey, you receive a lot of beer and whiskey from brewers and distillers to sample. The more you write, the more arrives for you to write about. It’s a feedback loop that never ends (and I mean this in the best way possible), but it also tends to pigeonhole you a bit.
I was pleasantly surprised, then, to find that a sample of gin from Berkshire Mountain Distillers had recently arrived in Paste’s Atlanta office. I happened to also have some classic Seagram’s dry gin, that old G&T standard, on hand at home, so I decided to taste the two against one another to give a clearer idea of how Berkshire’s regularly rotating Ethereal series might compare to a gin most people would label as “standard.” It was a good comparison, as this particular batch of Ethereal, which changes in recipe from batch to batch to explore different concepts, is labeled as being closer to a traditional dry gin than many of the previous iterations.
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