Cut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox A resurgence in gin - dubbed the “ginaissance” - has led to an ongoing boom in distilleries across the North.
Dan Walsh, the maker of Rascal Gin in Liverpool, cut his teeth with the events company Gin Festival, where he worked from 2014 - right as the boom in gin was first beginning.
Speaking to Annie Gouk, host of The North in Numbers, he said: “They were putting an event up online and selling thousands of tickets, selling out venues 10 times over, in a number of hours - just for having gin in the title. “Gin was on a spike, it was unprecedented madness.
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