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liquid juniper that armed an empire and ruined eighteenth-century London in equal measure
botanical lawlegally must taste predominantly of juniper berries
gin craze1700s Londoners drank it instead of unsafe water
tonic trickquinine in tonic once fought malaria for colonists
bathtub originsProhibition gin was distilled in actual bathtubs
name shrinkagederived from genever, itself from juniper in Dutch