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Last summer, Molly Cummings stood atop a ladder at the broad waist of a juniper tree in Texas’ Davis Mountains, filling her apron with plump berries collected from its branches. Cummings, a biology professor at UT, dubbed that West Texas tree Fertile Myrtle, and took the voluptuous plant’s bounty—along with berries contributed by other trees, including a pair she named Thelma and Louise because they clung to a cliffside—back home to Austin, where she treated and dehydrated them. Then she shipped them off to the East Coast, where they were used to put a new spin on an old spirit.
Read full Story link: http://alcalde.texasexes.org/2019/03/how-a-ut-professor-found-the-perfect-juniper-berries-for-gin-in-west-texas/
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