Words by Simon Difford
The Hayman family make gins using recipes that date back over 160 years with the oldest being their Old Tom, a fuller-flavoured gin compared to London dry. Despite gin's resurgence, Old Tom gins appear in comparatively few contemporary cocktail recipes. In 2023, Hayman's set out on a quest to rectify this with their "Old Tom, New Cocktail" competition.
Launched in 2008 and a classic London Dry gin in style, it is distilled with ten botanicals: juniper berries, coriander seed, nutmeg, cinnamon, angelica
Hayman's Old Tom is a modern-day recreation of an original family recipe dating from the 1860s. It is made with the same ten botanicals that feature in
This traditional sloe gin liqueur is made by steeping wild English hand-picked sloe berries, harvested in the Autumn in Hayman's Gin for several months.
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