“The gin actually tells the story of a country,” he explains. The ARC Botanical Gin is handcrafted from 28 botanicals, 22 of which are sourced and foraged from across the Philippines: pomelos ...

But gin isn’t considered a local drink or “inuming Pinoy,” according to the late Edilberto Alegre who wrote a book on just that. Local drinks would be laksoy” or lambanog, tuba, basi, tapey.

Gin mixed with methanol, commonly known as wood alcohol, or in street parlance, "gin bulag" — a clear, colorless, flammable and poisonous type of alcohol — could have killed eight men in ...