Elephant Gin Navy Strenght cl 50

Elephant Gin Navy Strenght cl 50

Elephant Strength is Elephant Gin’s idea of a “Navy Strength,” based on the award-winning Elephant London Dry Gin.
With its 57% alcohol content, it is stronger and more intense than the original, yet preserving its smooth and balanced character on the palate.
Twice as many botanicals are used to make it, with a special focus on peel, sweet orange peel, and mountain pine needles with their herbaceous note.

As is always the case with Elephant Gin, no detail is overlooked, and so the bottles of this new release also bear the name of the “Magnificent Seven”: the strongest and most impressive elephants found in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, whose tusks weigh more than 50 kg each. Kambaku, Joao Dzombo, Mafunyane, Ndlulamithi, Shawu, Shingwedzi are sadly gone but Elephant Gin wants these legends to live on in the Elephant Strength label.

The origins of Navy Strength gins takes us back to the 18th century when gin was extremely popular throughout the United Kingdom; so popular that the Royal Navy stipulated that a minimum amount of gin must be carried on board every ship. Not trusting the greedy merchants, British naval officers began to test its quality by wetting gunpowder with the distillate. If this burned it meant that the gin had not been diluted with too much water and the strength reflected at least 57%.

Elephant Gin contributes 15 percent of its earnings to the activities of the three foundations Big Life Foundation, Space For Elephants, and Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, which work to protect the African elephant from extinction.