The Crafty Distillery is nestled on the edge of Newton Stewart, a market town in Scotland’s Dumfries and Galloway region. The distillery is a modern grain-to-glass distillery that produces its base alcohol spirit from scratch, one of only a select few gin distilleries in Scotland. The small but dedicated and passionate team behind the distillery, led by Graham Taylor and Craig Rankin, produces a range of Scottish spirits, including Scottish Gins, vodka, and distilled cocktails. The team is also currently working on a range of Scotch whisky.
Every spirit produced at the distillery is made with care and skill to try and capture the story of the local area through the use of local ingredients along with their base alcohol made with locally sourced crops. The Crafty team’s co-founders’ ethos is that if a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing correctly.
Hills & Harbour Gin is the signature Scottish Gin from Crafty Distillery. Hills & Harbour Gin features an original base alcohol crafted by the team at Crafty Distillery using local grain. Hills & Harbour Gin features eleven botanicals, including a range of classic gin botanicals, including juniper, orange peel and liquorice. Locally foraged botanicals include noble fire needles and bladderwrack seaweed from the hills and coastline of Galloway. The flavour profile is juniper-led with distinct pine forest notes and tropical fruit balanced with citrus and spices with a tangy sherbet note and a subtle coastal note. Hills & Harbour Gin comes in a bespoke glass bottle that is 30% lighter than the previous bottle. The new bottle also features an innovative 100% natural cork and wood stopper that doubles as a spirit measurer, a world first in the world of spirits.
Key Botanical(s): Juniper, Bladderwrack Seaweed, Noble Fir Needles
Gin Style: London Dry
Strength: 40% ABV
Goes great with: A slice of fresh mango, tonic and ice.
Galloway Gin from Crafty Distillery is a yearly limited edition series of Scottish Gins, unique and original, with the first in the series released in 2018. Each edition features 100% Scottish foraged botanicals and an original base alcohol crafted by the team at Crafty Distillery using local grain. The 2023 Galloway Gin edition features a range of carefully foraged and selected botanicals to create a one-of-a-kind Scottish Gin. Scottish juniper, elderberries, crab apples, brambles, pepper dulse seaweed and damsons feature in this 2023 edition. The result is an original Scottish Gin flavour profile that captures a taste of Galloway's hills, coastlines and hedgerows. The flavour profile is juniper-led gin with some jammy berry fruits, citrus sherbet zing from the crab apples and a subtle salty note from the pepper dulse seaweed.
Key Botanical(s): Damsons, Elderberries, Brambles
Gin Style: London Dry
Strength: 40% ABV
Goes great with: A few brambles, tonic and ice.
The Crafty Distillery is a modern, contemporary distillery that produces a variety of craft Scottish spirits and was designed by co-founder Graham Taylor and his dad, with the project initially starting in 2015 before completion in 2017. From the distilleries, raised elevation on a clear day provides a majestic 180 degree panoramic view over the Dumfries and Galloway countryside. With various tours, tasting events and private hire available, a visit to the Crafty Distillery provides the perfect opportunity to discover more about the people, the products and the stories behind this modern craft spirits distillery.
Tour: Yes
Gin School: No
Cafe: Yes
Bar: Yes
Shop: Yes
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