Gorilla Spirits Co offers boozy spirits and liqueurs with a difference. As a portion of profits go to a charity that helps endangered gorillas, one of our closest relatives. Also available for contract distilling, this company is a great switch from major brand names, as you can sip on your favourite tipples, while helping the great apes.
Avoid tonic water for some medical conditions, due to quinine. Also avoid for pregnancy/nursing (but then you hopefully aren’t drinking alcohol anyway).
The range includes:
- Silverback VSOG is aged in cherry, with hints of smokiness, vanilla and dried fruit. Perfect after dinner, neat or over ice.
- Blackback Mountain Strength Vodka is made from British wheat, with notes of warm spice.
All wild gorillas (both eastern and western gorillas) live in central Africa, they don’t see each other, as there is a big rainforest between them. They move in ‘troops’ of up to 30 gorillas, which is led by the dominant silverback male, a few females and the children. Critically endangered, due to loss of habitat and poaching.
Mostly herbivores (they will sometimes eat insects and snails), the silverback is around 10 times stronger than a human man, but mostly are gentle, they only attack if they feel at risk, or are protecting their families. One of the most clever of all animals, they can make bamboo ladders to help babies reach trees, and even make cutlery from twigs, to eat insects.
