This Cruise Ship has the largest Gin collection at sea

Calling all gin lovers. This is the ultimate booze cruise: a ship that claims to have the largest collection of gin at sea, a total of 32 bottlings.

On board the Europa 2, which cruises from Dubai to Cyprus, as well as along Norway’s picturesque coastline, the ship carries 16 gins from England, ranging from Beefeater and Tanqueray to bottlings few U.S. passengers will know, such as Fifty Pounds London Dry (named after the £50 fee levied on English gin makers by George II in 1736), six from Germany, three each from Scotland and France, and just one apiece representing Austria, the Netherlands, Spain and the U.S. (that’s No. 209, out of California).

“We have been seeing a large rise in gin makers in Europe over the last few years,” says Erik Schütze, the manager of the luxury cruise liner’s Herrenzimmer bar. In addition, “with gin you get a huge variation in tastes and flavors that isn’t the case with other liquors these days.”


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