Flavor Profile
Mohawk Gin is surprisingly part of a diverse portfolio of brands owned by Heaven Hill Distilleries Inc. It was acquired in 2007 as part of a vast array of products from Boisset [which include bigger names like Hypnotiq, Pama and Christian Brothers Brandy]. Mohawk Gin is “produced” in Bardstown, KY. Other than that, not much information is available it. It’s common, inexpensive, and due to the wording on the label, perhaps the result of adding flavoring to neutral spirits rather than distillation.
Tasting Notes
Mohawk Gin’s nose is full of a juniper punch with a lot of ethanol. You can smell the burn, along with hints of other notes such as sweet cinnamon in the background. The palate is initially sharp and citric with harsh lemon, redolent of detergent or dish soap. Juniper in the mid-notes, oily and a bit prickly. The finish is a combination of sour and sweet with some sharp lemon notes before a burst of alcohol and heat. Hot, no flavor, and very short. There’s a long burn lacking any sort of depth or flavor. Overall the impression of the palate is quite bland.
Cocktails
We first mixed Mohawk Gin up a Gin and Tonic, as that is perhaps one of the primary ways Mohawk Gin is likely to be consumed. It added some sharp sour notes, which we cut off by a finish of quinine and some faint metallic notes. One note, quite sour and with a flat finish. It certainly added flavor to the G&T that would be recognizable as gin, but it didn’t add any appreciable depth to the drink.
Next up was was the Gimlet. The sweet lime notes overpowered the lemon note in the gin, replacing the latter with itself. There’s some notes of juniper, cassia and angelica, giving off some hints of being a more well-rounded gin. I didn’t get a lot of these notes in other drinks, but for some reason here I was picking them up. There’s a slight bite on the finish as well.
Overall, Mohawk Gin
Although the Gimlet offered us glimpses of something else, I find it hard to recommend Mohawk Gin when compared to other gins in the lower end of the price range.