Comments during tasting included “tastes like turpentine,”“adding vermouth just makes this stuff worse” and “burns with little flavor. After you grab the bomb ability in the Hall of Doors, there are two unlit lanterns near the path back to the main part of the hall. You'll get pure ethanol, pure acrid ethanol, on the nose of Farmer's Organic Gin, and it's too sweet and flowery to use in any cocktail or sip straight. Created on Washington Island, Wisconsin and made using juniper berries that grow wild with coriander and fennel sourced from within the state. Pinckney Bend Gin just secured distribution in Chicago and will be available here starting in January; until then, it’s available at the distillery in New Haven, MO.

Shoot on to the closest floating platform with the anchor and then shoot into the nearby keyhole window to the north. They’ve only been around for a little over a year, but they’ve already shaken up the spirits world by releasing a variety of seasonal gins, a barrel-aged absinthe and a competitor for Jeppson’s Malort. Watershed Distillery Four Peel Gin is the aforementioned gin that "tastes like turpentine," and the unpleasant taste came through in the gin and tonic and martinis. In the Estate of the Urn Witch (the garden part, not inside the Ceramic Manor), there is a set of fire pits. While there aren’t any enemies, there are many Shiny Things to find both here and in the tutorial area, the Grove of Spirits.

It can be tough to get through as you’ll probably fall off the cliffs and miss the timings many times, but once you get through it, you’ll have access to the last vitality shrine.

It drinks very hot by itself, but in a cocktail its herbal character shines right through (in fact, one member of our tasting panel had it in an arugula gimlet at Milwaukee’s Odd Duck last month), making it a perfect gin for a bitter drink like a negroni.The Hall of Doors and Grove of Spirits have five different Shiny things: the Ancient Door Scale Model, Modern Door Scale Model, Rusty Belltower Key, Surveillance Device, and Makeshift Soul Key.

One of our top gins comes from a new place that only has a single still in a garage and another comes from a distillery that cranks out thousands of bottles. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.These included traditional juniper-forward gins, gins made with unique, exotic botanicals, barrel-aged gins and over-proof gins—22 gins in all, from Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Minnesota. Shrines are hidden structures with monstrous faces found around the world, and they each give a crystal — pink for magic and green for health. Hit where the vases would be according to the reflections to break them, and enter where the door appears to access the shrine. You’ll need to take out several enemies, all while dodging the gas bombs from one of the cannon-wielding guys from the Urn Witch’s Laboratory. However, there’s a cut in the hedges that allows you to travel through the bushes to the bricked off part of the map.