A collaboration between Master of Malt and an East London bar, The Worship Street Whistling Shop ‘“ Cream Gin was launched in late 2012. The brain-child of The Whistling Shop’s head bartender at the time (and now of super geek mixologist genius co-founder of The White Lyan), Ryan Chetiyawardana ‘“ references to ‘cream gin’ can be found in old illustrations of Gin Palaces from the 18th century. Quoted from Master of Malt’s blog post announcing the launch Ryan talks about how Cream Gin came around ‘“ ‘When looking through drawings of Gin Palace scenes from the 18th Century, there were often depictions of two (usually barrelled) products in the bars. One was Old Tom Gin, and the other was Cream Gin. Upon quizzing several people as to what this may mean, as it is with Old Tom, different answers were given. I eventually got an answer with which I was satisfied, which alluded to the fact that it was probably gin mixed with cream and sugar and left in barrel to soften the harshness of the gin.’