Tonny Svennson is the creative director of the distillery and we met him at the Bird and Church Key bar. The distillery is located int he meatpacking district which is hip and trendy these days. We talked for over two hours about a wide range of things. I told our story first and then Tonny told me his story. He used to work for a medical company. He quit and put a chunk of money into the distillery. He was just starting to make headway, custom making gin for local bars, gin for the Denmark fashion week and marketing his own brand when Covid hit. Bard were closing and opportunities evaporating so he went back to the medical company and was able to negotiate a position where can work remotely and also have a few says off each week to devote to keeping the gin business going. I sampled his brands, some other gins that he likes and used for gin tastings as well as some more exotic spirits. I tried his absinthe and a coffee based aquavit. He also tole me of a contact of his that has developed a technique to age spirits using electrolisis. Whisky is too caught up in the aging tradition to accept this technology but Gin has not pretentions in this regard. So I got to try an experimental run that he is preparing to present to a Japanese distillery
A new metro station
Lots of things to draw in the eyes
The rain did not stop all day as I reached the meatpacking district
It is wet here in the back door area of the district
The rain makes these panels look like trees
Old industrial look
The picture is beef but the translation is pork tail
Tonny Svensson
Where the magic happens
Blue flowers that make the gin purple
Lets get the sampling begin, a sip of the house absinthe, La Luna
Another absinthe DAD stood for Denmark After Dark but someone already trademarked that phrase so it became DAD
Two gins and an Aquavit
A new Gin to try, quite smooth and floral from Ireland
the Swedish Gin maker that Tonny worked at to get more gin making experience
We talked about quality and branding and he brought out the Brooklyn Gin. This is not new to the list but the lid is solid metal and the bottle is hefty.
He really liked the gin books!
Now we dove into the Plateau gins. A GnT of the Tranquillite and one of the Plateau Gin.
Next two shots of an experimental gin. It is "aged' using electrodes
The gin they were trying to emulate was Sakuro Gin which we had in Hiroshima
Then a shot of a a coffee based aquavit
The hot wax section
Everybody likes the drips
Very fancy light fixtures from a buddy of Tonny's
I like the rugged look of the models they use
If there are Asian Food Markets, it is a trendy neighborhood
Fish fishy!
We will be back for the Jazz Festival
Definitely a hip neighborhood
