The origins of Monkey 47 date back to the mid 1950's when a British Royal Air Force Commander, Montgomery Collins, stationed in Germany, decided to create his own gin which he called "Max the Monkey - Schwarzwald Dry Gin". He named it Max the Monkey - Schwarzwald Dry Gin, after Max, a monkey he adopted from the Berlin Zoo, which was under reconstruction at the time, and the place where the gin was produced, the Black Forest. In 2008, Alexander Stein decided to recreate the recipe of this gin found in the 1960s and created the Black Forest distillery...
To pay tribute to Commander Montgomery Collins, his monkey Max and because of the 47 botanicals used in the recipe, Alexander Stein named it MONKEY 47.
