<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#0e101a">Furthermore, because it was a dockside town near the Netherlands, it had better access to the raw ingredients and spices that are needed for producing gin.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#0e101a">In 1777, Edinburg alone had eight certified gin distilleries. A large number of stills that were not licensed were also in operations. The quality of the gin produced was uneven till the early 18th century when Robert Stein changed the manufacturing process from traditional pot stills to a developed process that could manufacture spirit much more quickly and in large quantities.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#0e101a">Aeneas Coffey who is an Irish distiller, known for creating the twin column still, improved on Stein's idea afterward. Gin production efficiency improved once more as a result of this</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#0e101a">This discovery made distilling feasible and distillers in Scotland soon started shipping neutral grain spirit to London, resulting in the introduction of London dry gin in the late 19th century.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#0e101a">Gin sales soared until the 1950s when vodka supplanted gin as one of the most popular drinks. As a result, Edinburgh which had previously been the epicenter of the gin business had no more gin distilleries by 1970.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#0e101a">The industry did not see any recovery until late-1980 when Bombay Sapphire was introduced. But, the Scottish gin industry is doing strong in the twenty-first century. In 2003, Hedrick’s Gin was created which was very different from the London Dry style.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#0e101a">Independent enterprises obtained the ability to distill gin on a smaller batch rather than exclusively on an industrial basis after a lawsuit against HMRC were won in 2009. That's the fundamental reason small craft gin distilleries can now be found all around Scotland.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
