Like turning water into wine, enjoy the journey of turning a simple bottle of vodka into your own bottle of home crafted gin in only 36 hours Most proper, commercial gin makers extract the flavours from their botanicals through distillation, it is very possible to make gin simply by soaking juniper and botanicals in the base spirit. Love-Gin makes it is very possible to make your own gin at home, using vodka. The technical name for this is compound gin but it’s also sometimes called ‘bathtub gin’, in reference to the vessel in which it batches were illegally made during American Prohibition in the 1920s.