Anyway, we have a few fantastic rose bushes in the garden and the pink ones are prolific, I believe it's a hybrid tea rose. The shade of colour would not be of my choosing however, I'm appreciative of it nevertheless. As there are just so many I gathered lots of fresh petals and popped them in a kilner, added a tablespoon of sugar and topped it up with gin. I give it a shake and left it 24 hours. By the time I came to strain it the gin was a beautiful reddish amber and the petals were devoid of colour and all floating at the top.
I had a try and it's quite strong but strangely, gins seem to get better after a while even though there's no logical reason.