There are infinite possibilities with what you can craft with a beer.. but our thirst to experiment is not content with limiting ourselves to a single drink category. Introducing Northern Monk’s first foray into the spirited world of distilling, we collaborated with Zymurgorium, brewers of the UK’s best meads and distiller of Manchester Gin, to distill a gin that only a craft brewery could. Envisioned as a deconstruction of a black IPA in gin form, Infirmarian is a “black hop gin” laced with Simcoe, Citra and Mosaic, where the hops character is accentuated by grapefruit and kissed by junipers and licorice. At The Refectory taproom, we mix our house gin and tonic with Infirmarian, elderflower tonic, mint, and a dash of lime