Infused Spirit Family
Prepared house spirits flavoured by soaking herbs, woods, or botanicals into a base spirit before service, preserving an older medicinal and rustic strand of bar practice.
Origin
Thomas includes several infused gins in his miscellaneous section, suggesting that prepared bottles still formed part of practical service culture.
template
- Gin and Pine
Gin and Pine is the clearest explicit infusion-prep in this cluster.
variant
- Gin and Tansy
Bitter-herbal tansy branch of the infused gin family.
branch
- Gin and Wormwood
Wormwood branch of the infused gin family.
Modern descendants
- compound gin infusions
- house tinctured spirits
- flavoured bottle preps