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Bars across Toronto are serving gin made from Christmas trees this holiday season
Festive cocktails at a handful of bars across the city are coming with a particularly nostalgic flavour profile as a Toronto distillery doles out new gin made using Christmas trees.Who says adults can't land on Santa's nice list?Toronto's over-19 population, at the very least, got an extra special treat earlier this month, as mixologist Brenton Mowforth (Cheers to Happy Hour) and Nickel 9 Distillery co-founder Chris Jacks, dressed as Santa Claus and an elf, delivered the gifts of Nickel 9's newest product, Trees to Happy Hour Christmas Tree Gin, to bars around the city.If you, like me, are still willing to overlook the infinite logistical headaches of a real Christmas tree simply for the smell, this is one spirit that'll most definitely hit your festive bone.Mowforth tells blogTO that the idea of creating a Christmas tree-infused gin first dawned on him when he and his wife decided to ditch their fake tree for the real deal two Christmases ago."Tha...
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