Work smarter, not harder is what they say, awful tough to do back in the old Maine woods. It's that labor that built this country pulling logs and lumber from the White mountains to Katahdin all the way up to the Great Northern Maine woods on the border. Out of this world many characters were built but two of them we remember by the label  on our bottle.

Jigger Johnson, toughest of the tough. A lumberjack equal to no other, except maybe Mr. Bunyan. We've heard telltale he'd drive logs and catch bobcats. But one day, Jigger said he'd rather watch the trees than cut them down, then set up being a fire warden. Old Jigger, he supposed all that watching was a good time to set up a still with the base of his firewatch. Darn, what better place to keep an eye on the fire than when you're sitting on top of it. Unfortunately that was a little too smart for the firewatch service at the time.

Madam Fann Jones equated that labor and then some in Bangor where sailors and loggers met. There she found an entrepreneurial opportunity to build her life upon. A smart one she was, so much so that when she wanted to make sure they could find her house of questionable repute, she painted her long tall chimney sky blue. An easy site to see from the docks for the lumbermen who drove logs, longshoremen who loaded the ships, and the sailors who needed some rest.  Madam Fann had quite the reputation and we assume that one day after a long winter cutting wood, Jigger came down out of the woods and saw that chimney. In Bangor's Devil's Half Acre no one might ever know whatever what was produced from that union, but we'd like to guess that's what's in the bottle we have here for you with notes of forest, of elegance, of robustness, and of delicateness that we believe that Jigger and Jones American gin brings forward. That's spirit of how great gin was made.

We start with juniper, that pine note that everybody knows of gin, but then we want to introduce people to the whole forest by adding notes of cardamom for earthiness, wind and sky. To that, we pair whole fruit for the sweetness of our citrus, compared with the bitter of the rind of our orange to provides a great path that a suddenly hints of the spice of our coriander, which melts into the warmth of the alcohol opening up the wonderful world of botanicals found in the great Maine woods.

From our home to your glass.

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