Among the many, many dangers Mail Online likes to warn its readers about, we must now add to the list gin distillers.
An article published Saturday afternoon seemed to be laying the ground work for a trip to Chiswick for the UN weapons inspectors, crying: “Hipster gin makers evacuated their distillery after accidentally making MUSTARD GAS while trying to concoct a new flavour”.
The article claimed that, while trying to make a mustard-flavoured gin, west London-based distillers Sipsmiths had to evacuate their premises after accidentally creating the deadly chemical weapon.
But as was quickly pointed out on Twitter, mustard gas isn’t made from the condiment.
Daily Mail are idiots. One doesn't make Mustard Gas from mustard. https://t.co/J5HiGl0aBQ
— Dan Kaszeta (@DanKaszeta) January 17, 2016
And the other thing the article failed to mention, as pointed out by the distillery’s own Twitter account, was that the incident happened four years ago.
An experiment 4 yrs ago where we distilled mustard powder led to a bad smell in distillery. The moment has since been exaggerated.
— Sipsmith Distillery (@sipsmith) January 16, 2016
Not quite weapons-grade fact checking.
