About us
Jurassic Gin started with a conversation between two friends in Porrentruy, in 2018.
At the end of summer 2018, two friends who love gin were having a gin and tonic in Porrentruy, the main town of Ajoie. They realised that nobody in the canton of Jura made gin. They decided to start, with a recipe rooted in their region, and got to work within weeks.
It took thousands of hours of research and plenty of failed attempts to get the recipe right. Jurassic Spirits was founded in 2021, and the first bottle went out to a customer on 13 October 2022. Lukas Mikula, the founder, calls that day “his second birthday”.
The name Jurassic Gin comes from the canton of Jura and its fossil past. While building the A16 motorway, crews uncovered thousands of dinosaur footprints in the rock, one of the largest sites of its kind in the world. We still had to work out how to connect those tracks to a gin made today.
Our answer was two plants that already grew in the age of the dinosaurs: field horsetail and ginkgo biloba. Ginkgo covered Jurassic forests and has barely changed since. In Japan it stands for resilience, because several ginkgo trees survived the Hiroshima bomb and grew back.