The City of London has a rich gin story. During the eighteenth-century Gin Craze, there was a gin distillery or gin shop on every street in the city, which benefited from the spices and citrus that came to London Harbor. The Gin Craze was shut down, few gin distilleries survived, and for nearly 200 years there was not a single gin distillery in town. Until the opening of the City of London Distillery in 2012.