An Ivy City Distillery Releases a New Gin in Support of Abortion Access | Eater DC

"In Ivy City I found a women-owned, LGBTQ-owned distillery that has taken a loud liberal stance since opening in 2016 and is now channeling activism into product: their new Dissent Gin—made in honor of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and available starting June 30—sells for $79 a bottle with $10 from each bottle donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds to help cover travel and lodging for women in need; the first run is 1,500 bottles (a second batch is already planned), online orders can ship to 30 states, and bottles are also sold at D.C. spirits stores and at their Ivy City distillery. I note that Republic tapped D.C. gin wizard Nicole Hassoun to create a smoke-infused, savory gin influenced by RBG’s Brooklyn hometown that uses ingredients not often found in gin—pepper, allspice, bay leaves, ginger, lemon, mandarin orange, and hickory smoke—and that D.C. artist Rose Jaffe designed the label; Dissent Gin joins a family of small-batch spirits from the distillery including Civic Vodka, Madam whiskey, Purpose Rye, and Chapmans Apple Brandy Assembly Gin, and co-founder Pia Carusone frames the release as a feminist, action-driven collaboration and an act of dissent in response to the recent Supreme Court decision." - Tierney Plumb