London Dry (Baseline) is a gin recipe targeting 42% ABV at 33.5 g/L botanical load. Browse the ingredients below, download as a portable text file, or clone it into your Broover account to use as the basis for your next gin run.
Botanicals, base structures, and post-distillation additions that define this gin recipe. Loads are listed in g/L of charge — multiply by your run's charge volume to get absolute weights.
Carl’s 4-botanical baseline. Core three (juniper, coriander, angelica) macerate in the charge for 12h — proven sweet spot. Lemon peel rides in the basket for a bright top note without bitterness. Juniper-forward, clean. Benchmark against this before adding more botanicals.
Broover is the workflow app for craft and home distillers — track every wash, distillation run, and bottled lot from a single screen with full provenance from kettle to bottle. Clone this recipe to your account and Broover pre-fills your next wash from these settings; strip and spirit runs link automatically, and the bottled lot at the end traces all the way back to this recipe.