Seedlip Garden 108

This costs around $12. You should take your $12 and buy a dozen gallon jugs of water instead. That would be far superior to this. So, as I only have one or two pours weekly, and only on weekends, I opened this yesterday. I created two preparations with it: The first involved boiling lemongrass and honey in water to create a lemongrass syrup. The second involved boiling lemon and sugar to make a lemon syrup. I cooled both for several hours. Then, I combined 2 ounces of this spirit with 1 ounce of the syrup, some ice, a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, and shook it all together. Both cocktails were terrible. The 2 ounces of this base spirit were too herbal, like spoiled basil leaves. The syrups alone were amazing, especially the lemongrass... this base spirit smelled like a dirty sock. Ended up discarding the bottle...

I enjoy a drink, but I'm getting older and find that more than a couple of drinks disrupt my sleep. Additionally, I believe I'm falling into a mid-life habit of having one or two most evenings, which I'm trying to break. So, a gin alternative seemed like the solution... or so I thought. Unfortunately, it really wasn't. The person who offered me a sample mentioned that others compared it to drinking chopped parsley, and it did. To quote a wise individual named Gump, that's all I have to say on the matter. Unsurprisingly, I did not purchase a bottle.

This was the least enjoyable of the three non-alcoholic Seedlip "spirits" I've sampled. The aroma is like strong, slightly decaying herbs and sliced heirloom tomatoes - unpleasant! The taste is somewhat better, with more citrus alongside the herbs, but the raw, unseasoned tomato flavor reappears, which I didn't care for. Mixers like tonic helped dilute it but didn't improve the flavors. I'd only suggest this for a virgin Bloody Mary; otherwise, I can't recommend it.

We are trying a lot of these non-alcoholic spirits for dry days. We had this the other night in their cocktail recipe called "Lime" and it was really good. This is not missing flavor or scent. Of course it isn't exactly the same as drinking Hendricks lol, but hey - for a non- alcohol version, it's good.