AWARD WINNING GIN
Two good friends. One a gin loving engineer, the other a country pub owner. Late into the night their first chance encounter turned into a dream. “Let’s make the finest spirits, together.” And they have.
More by luck than design, our location could not be better. We’re in the shadows of the rugged Black Mountains which provide plentiful streams of clear, pure water. And surrounded by the fields and orchards of Herefordshire, perfect for blending the smoothest gins, infused with natural country flavour.
It’s still the two of us, testing, making, bottling, and occasionally, selling. Glyn’s still relying on the critique of his patrons in the pub. Lloyd is in the engine room, overseeing quality control.
We’re chuffed by the awards. They tell us it’s not just us who enjoy our gins and liqueur’s. We’re pretty sure you will too.
Gin Tour & Tasting
OPPORTUNITY FOR A UNIQUE TOUR, TALK AND TASTING
The tour starts with a sensory explosion in the coffee roasting barn, and you will learn about the journey of a coffee bean from source to cup, how coffee beans look in their raw green form, where we sustainably source our coffee and through to the details of artisan coffee roasting process and even the intricacies of how the grind affects the flavour.
The journey continues into the still room where you will learn about our copper pot stills Twmpa and Trixie, how we take the raw materials and turn this into our award-winning gins, rums, and liqueurs.
Your expert guide will talk you through everything from traditional mashing, fermenting and distilling processes, to how our bottles are hand waxed and finished.
After the tour, you will head upstairs to the Hill Billy Bar and Gin school to enjoy a personal tasting of our range of award-winning products, and if there is something that takes your fancy, you can pick up a bottle at the Distillery Shop.
Gin Making Experience
LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT GIFT?
Come and spend the afternoon in our award-winning Herefordshire distillery. Our master distiller will give you all the training needed to distil your own personal bottle of Gin. Choose from a huge range of botanicals.
Ginventory:
- Arrive at 1pm and have a whistle stop tour of our coffee roastery, then a welcome tea/coffee, or a cheeky G&T
- Tour of the Gin distillery room and meet our beautiful copper stills.
- A brief history of Gin and some of the legal requirements.
- Now you can meet your still, learn about the process, learn one end of a still from the other.
- Meet the ingredients, discuss the flavour profile you fancy and choose your botanicals, with the help and experience of our master distiller.
- How to macerate, the process, ingredients and what is involved.
- Choose a G&T for our selection of in-house gins!
- Time to start distillation.
- An afternoon of distillation, cutting to strength and gin tasting.
- Bottle into a personalised stoneware bottle and seal it with wax.
- Time for a chat and a farewell G&T or even try our latest spirit.
Our Gin Making Experience days are for a single ginner with your own still. If you want to bring a friend and be a gintastic duo, to share the experience and the 50cl bottle of gin you have made, please book for two persons.
Cant see the date you want ? Then please contact us on info@blackmountainsbotanicals.co.uk. We have been able to accommodate last minute, mid week evening sessions and extra weekend ones too
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