{"id":13394,"date":"2014-06-05T01:57:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T00:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/?p=13394"},"modified":"2014-07-28T15:41:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T14:41:57","slug":"junipalooza-2014-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/junipalooza-2014-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Junipalooza 2014 on its way!"},"content":{"rendered":"
There’s something magical about the word ‘Ginsmith’ – it sounds vaguely fantastical and quintessentially British. I imagine a group of well-dressed gentlemen reclining in armchairs, sipping botanicals from teacups, all clad in chequered suits like something out of Lewis Carol. One chap would squint from a monocle and occasionally shout insights such as ‘lemon verbena! There’s definitely a hint!’ <\/a><\/p>\n Then there’s ‘Junipalooza<\/strong>‘, which almost goes the other way – it conjures the image of tie-dye wearing hippies waving their arms as someone on stage bawls out the lyrics to Gin Soaked<\/em> and passing round a joint of juniper berries. Yet if someone was to put it bluntly and say ‘Gin Festival : In London,’ then one’s mind could make the leap to the somewhat unglamorous days of Mother’s Ruin – overfed men swigging from unmarked bottles, their noses the shape and colour of a freshly dug beetroot, while a tart in the corner suckles her baby on a cocktail of milk and spirits.<\/p>\n A lot of contradictory ideas flying about there. So what exactly is one to expect from Junipalooza<\/strong>? Well, since World Gin Day<\/strong> falls on Saturday 14th June, Gin Foundry<\/strong> have decided to take this opportunity to celebrate all things Juniper related on the first weekend of June. And this means creating a festival where the focus is on fabulous gins, and there’s not a wonky trestle table in site. They’re actually outlawed.<\/p>\n