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Douglas Fir Gin with Gin and Tonic
Distillery Updates

Douglas Fir Gin: A Pine Needle Botanical Explained

Why This Tree 🌲? I first discovered this amazing tree when I read about it in the BBC Good Food magazine which said it was an up and coming ingredient for chefs.  Not knowing what they look like Rich and I went off to learn all about them.  For the next few weeks while Rich

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Kaffir Lime and Lemongrass Gin Bottle
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Lemongrass Gin: A Citrus Gin Botanical

Why Lemongrass? We love lemongrass here at Twisting Spirits and it was one of the 1st gin botanicals we experimented with.  Why you ask? Well, it’s because I love a Thai green curry and I had some lemongrass in my freezer.  Alongside its favourite friend Kaffir Lime leaves.  We quickly worked out that this bright

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A Perfect Christmas Gin
Distillery Updates

Douglas-Fir: A Perfect Christmas Gin That Can Be Enjoyed all Year Round!

A Perfect Christmas Gin A bit about Douglas-Fir Our Douglas-Fir gin is made from hand foraged Douglas Fir pines that are cold distilled into a London dry gin. Nature’s exquisite forest bouquet, bottled – Dougals-Fir is an evergreen coniferous tree that orginated in north america. The needles used in our Douglas Fir Gin are personally hand foraged by Mary

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Earl Grey Tea Gin
Distillery Updates

Earl Grey Tea Gin: A Unique Botanical

Earl Grey Tea Gin Our Twisting Spirits Earl Grey is a classic dry gin, with 11 hand chosen botanicals. It’s our only tea flavoured gin and what better tea to chose then a delicious Earl Grey. It’s delightfully floral, delicate & warming with aromas of crisp citrus, peach & high tea.  In order to produce the cleanest

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Distillery Updates

Finally our new still is in operation

Well what a journey but it’s been worth the wait! After two years of deliberation and a further year wait for the build, we finally have our new still commissioned!  Our two trusty alembic stills have now been retired and our shiny new still takes over. We investigated all available options before finally taking the

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Cold distilling Douglas-Fir needles ready for Christmas Gin

Well after a few set backs achieving full vacuum on our evaporator, the needles are now on. We hand forage all our Douglas-Fir and cold distill to extract a lovely piney essence. This is the ultimate Christmas Gin, make from what is essentially a Christmas tree. What’s not to like? Three star winner at Great

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