Sustainable Spirits
We built our distillery from the ground up not only to have a vanishingly small carbon footprint, but also to have a positive impact on the environment and our community. We have led the way in sustainable distilling and won many notable awards for our work. Take a look at our headline achievements below.
mitigating food waste
We make all our fermented and distilled spirits from surplus produce from local farmers or the local food system. In fact, the spirits we make are dictated by what is surplus or byproduct. It’s our raison d'être. That’s why we specialise in fruit brandies, rums, and whiskeys, spirits where the raw materials are local to us and not suitable for supermarkets.
100% renewable power
Our stills and equipment, our distillery operations, heat pumps and our bottling line - powered by green electricity. Using an electric still instead of running a gas steam boiler is more expensive, but we believe fossils fuels have to remain in the ground.
Carbon neutral for all spirits
We were the first distillery in the UK to demonstrate carbon neutrality, and our assessment covers all distillery operations. This ensures that, even though we have a light touch on the lands, any emissions in our supply chain are understood, assessed, and offset with carbon credits.
View Our 2023 Carbon Offset Certificate here.
ZERO WASTE TARGET
What we take in is surplus, but we also focus on what goes out. Our own organic waste feeds local boar. Our liquid waste makes gas for the grid. Our total non-recyclable waste output is one bin every 6-8 weeks.
ENERGY RECOVERY
We include waste energy in our definition of zero waste, and so we recover heat energy in our cooling water to preheat mains water feeding out air-source heat pumps, and we recover the heat energy from our stillage (waste liquid from the still after distilling) to preheat the next distillation or fermentation.
WATER PROTECTION
After Energy use and raw materials, water is the next biggest direct resource used in a distillery, mainly for cooling. We have built a wildlife pond which acts as a closed-loop cooling system and reduced our total water use by 85%. It also provides an aquatic habitat for hoards of newt and dragonfly!
ZERO CHEMICALS
We don’t use any caustic or toxic sterilants in our distillery. We use eco-friendly enzyme based cleaners, steam, and elbow grease to keep everything shiny and new.
RECYCLED & RECYCLABLE
We aim to use only recycled and recyclable materials in the distillery, so no laminated non-recyclable gift bags with single use cotton handles for us! We make sure that our customers find it brain-dead simple to recycle our packaging and marketing materials.
