On this page, you will find a history of Booth's Gin. Click on any of the links below to see the why's, how's and who's of Booth's Gin.
In the 18th century there was an epidemic of gin drinking in England. Rot-gut gin was destroying lives and families. Gin shops sold their product for one penny a pint. People died in vast numbers from cirrhosis of the liver. In London there were twice as many burials as baptisms. William Hogarth’s savage portrait of Gin Lane in 1751 (above) stressed the terrible dissolution of the time: a house is falling down, a corpse is being put into a cart and a woman is so drunk that she is dropping her baby over a railing. Click the link to the Gin Epidemic to read more..... |  Hogarth's Gin Lane. London |
