ahaa gin…
About 15 years ago a couple of lads who worked for me, frustrated by my total lack of drinking ability, which always ruined the staff chritmas party, discovered that the only alcohol that didnt make me immediately ill was gin. From that day forth the annual event of ‘ginmas’ was born.
The last working day before christmas is always known as ginmas. There are a few rules to this event though..
Only employees and ex employees of the company are invited, although an exception has been made in the past for very good friends of the company.
The most important rule.. Each attendee must produce a bottle of gin that we’ve never had before. Yes.. it’s sad, but we keep a record of each years gins. We even check that all seals are intact and lock them in a secure locker to avoid tampering hehe
Every year at the start of festivities (and before our judgement is clouded) we have a blind taste test of all that years gins with very stringent scoring and produce records which we keep.. also sad.
As the years have gone by we’ve encountered dificulty sourcing new gins and have at times been forced to import real obscure ones from all over the world.
The event has become so popular that ex staff travel back from all over the place to attend. This year someone is flying back from Sydney just to attend ginmas.