A new distillery in Lancaster is launching tours of its facility.
Housed alongside the Lancaster Brewery, The Lancaster Spirits Company is a grain-to-glass distillery, utilising decades of brewing know-how to produce small-batch gins, vodkas and most recently, whisky.
The team are now ready to open up the site to visitors keen to enjoy a “tasting journey” through the complexities of gin, vodka and whisky production.
Unlike most, the distillery has taken an unusual approach to creating its base grain spirit, by distilling from its own specially concocted beer made using a secret blend of wheat and rye grains, a two-hundred-year-old Lancastrian live yeast and water drawn from an artesian well.
This “made not mixed” approach to its white spirits means that to produce a single drop of Lancaster Spirits Company product takes a minimum of five weeks of painstaking work.
Tasting tours are run in groups of up to 12 people on selected dates.
Chris Pateman Lancaster Spirits Co's Commercial Manager said: "We are excited to be launching our distillery tours, which we’ve carefully designed to share an insight into some of the many tireless processes involved in crafting our award-winning spirits.
‘’We always wanted to be able to share what we do with the public, to give people the chance to taste our lovely range of spirits, share the scientific and creative process behind the products, as well as have the opportunity to reveal some of our exciting plans for the future at the same time.”
To book a tour visit: https://lancasterspirits.co.uk