Jacobus Alfons, or Bobby to his family and friends,born in Naku, Ambon (Indonesia), migrated to the Netherlands.
Bobby loved Dutch Jenever, but missed the taste of home, so he started infusing his jenever with familiar Indonesian spices and herbs. Unknowingly creating his own gin.
And laying the foundation for Bobby’s Schiedam Dry Gin.
Bobby’s grandson Sebastiaan discovered an old bottle at his mother’s house. Inspired by the story about his grandfather and his unique Indonesian recipe, he went to Schiedam, the city where gin originated. There he met the seventh generation master distiller of Herman Jansen. Together they started working on creating a unique gin, blending the tradition of Schiedam jenever with the best Indonesian botanicals and spices.
After almost two years of distilling, developing and refining, Bobby’s Schiedam Dry Gin is born. iN 2016 expand our brand more towards the Far East. Countries as; Japan, Taiwan, China, Brazil, Singapore and off course Indonesia is on our list. Bobby’s Gin won two golden medals, the WSA Austria and the CWSA China. And of course, we went back to the source, Bobby’s Schiedam Jenever came as a brother for the Dry Gin.
