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What Is Genever, Exactly?

The Beet Box at Dosa.
The Beet Box at Dosa.

It’s popping up more and more on cocktail menus, and Suzanne Miller, bar manager at DOSA Fillmore, provides a concise explanation of the relatively new (but actually very old) spirit known as Bols genever. It’s a precursor to gin made with malt wine and spirit, and Bols decided to go back to their 1820s recipe for genever and re-release it to the public starting in 2007. In this video, Miller explains a bit more about it, and uses it to make one of her house cocktails: the Beet Box.


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What Is Genever, Exactly?