Sup Up North

SPIRIT BOUND

Ellers Farm Distillery in York have produced a spirit to stand out on your drinks trolley with the bottle Flora, personifying the mouth-watering liquid inside.

Elderflower & Elderberry Liqueur. £19 ellersfarmdistillery.com

 

 

CHUCKLE…WHAT?

Shed 1 Gin Distillery on the edge of the Lake District uses Chuckleberries, (they are a real thing), a hybrid berry incorporating a gooseberry, redcurrant and jostaberry into gin.

Chuckleberry Gin £29.95 shed1distillery.com

 

 

GUT-LOVING

Brewed on a farm near Cheshire, this family business adds ginger juice brimming with friendly gut-loving bacteria and a full tablespoon of prebiotic apple cider vinegar.

Hip Hop Apple Cider Vinegar Soda. 6 cans £20 drinkhippop.com

 

 

 

SPICE UP YOUR LIFE

This prolific Manchester-based distillery makes the luxurious pink Ruby Chocolate. It’s a premium rum blended with this newly discovered spice to give textures of silk, deep chocolate and ripe berries.

Ruby Eyes Chocolate Rum £25 zymurgorium.com

 

 

 

PEACHY KEEN…

Following the production of a small batch of gin in a front room in Didsbury, a brand was born. A citrus London Dry Gin blended with subtle flavours of fresh British peaches paired with rose notes.

Didsbury Gin Peach & Rose £29.95 didsburygin.com

 

 

 

SUMMER IN A GLASS

Based just north of York and near to the market town of Malton, Yorkshire’s food capital, Sloemotion Distillery presents this luscious new liquor. The strawberries in the gin were grown in Yorkshire, by Annabel Makin-Jones.  Two weeks of spectacular summer weather last year led to a bumper crop of sweet strawberries, but the weather turned sour just as the very sweetest and brightest fruit was ready. With no sunshine to encourage picnics or BBQs, the nation’s demand for fresh berries plummeted, but rather than go to waste, these fruits were frozen and have now been used as the heroes in the new gin.

Strawberry Gin Liqueur with Vanilla & Black Pepper. £20 sloemotiondistillery.com

 

 

NorthernLife July/August 2022