Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has awarded the owners of North Uist Distillery £250,000 for the development of Nunton Steadings in Benbecula. According to the Scottish Construction News, the work will consist of the installation of distilling equipment and building adaptation. Owners Jonny Ingledew and Kate Macdonald have operated the business since 2017 and now…
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Bushmills Irish Whiskey has announced a collaboration with the fictional Shelby family’s real-life bosses, Endemol Shine North American and Caryn Mandabach Productions, to release a limited edition Bushmills Prohibition Recipe Whisky to correspond with the show’s sixth and final season, according to Yahoo News. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to have entered into such a…
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The world’s largest bottle of Scotch whisky, The Intrepid, standing at 5ft 11 inches tall and filled with 311 litres of fine 32-year-old single-malt distilled at the prestigious The Macallan in Speyside in 1989, has sold for £1.1m ($1.375m) after going under the hammer live online in Lyon & Turnbull’s Wednesday 25 May auction. An…
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United Spirits Limited (USL) has signed a deal with Inbrew Beverages for Inbrew to buy 32 local Indian spirit manufacturers for around US$100 million. This move is anything but a retreat for India’s largest spirit company. USL – also known as Diageo India, It said it would retain ownership of high-end and premium Indian spirits,…
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‘Waste’ is not the first thing that springs to mind when thinking about a distillery, but for Hendre Barnard, Head of Production at Jim and Tonic Distillery, it is; while manufacturing every day, there is a lot of organic waste to deal with. Here Hendre explains exactly how they deal with waste at Jim and Tonic. Distilleries…
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Gin entrepreneur Sally Wynter has just announced that she sold her CBD-infused gin Muhu last year for a “seven-digit figure” to Colorado-based New Frontier. Wynter herself would be the first to admit it was close to a miracle that Muhu was created. She had no experience, no friends or family with money, no co-founder, no…
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The UK’s British Honey Company is celebrating the 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II with a special commemorative edition of its Classic Honey Infused Gin for the Platinum Jubilee. Made from its signature London Dry Gin and infused with 100 percent pure honey from apiaries in Windsor Great Park, the 42% ABV gin is flavoured with…
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The Shropshire Gin Co has walked away with the award for Best International Classic Gin at the 2022 ADI International Spirits Completion. In 2007, the American Distilling Institute revolutionized spirits competitions with the creation of what it then called the Judging of Craft Spirits. Before the ADI Judging, spirits competitions simply gave out scores or medals….
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Buen Vato, the world’s first tequila in a cardboard container shaped as a bottle made from 94% recycled material, will be launched in Europe in July 2022, starting in the Swedish market. Tequila Buen Vato is on a mission to shake-up the drinks industry by investing in sustainable manufacturing, transportation processes and CSR initiatives. This revolutionary bottle…
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Thieves who knew what they were looking for targeted Speyside distillery Glenfarclas, stealing within four minutes somewhere between £100,000 to £150,000 worth of whisky (estimates have varied depending on source). The break-in happened at Glenfarclas distillery, near Ballindalloch, in the early hours of Sunday, according to the BBC. The firm said it was “horrified” that…
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