Gins of the Lakes and Fells
Celebrate Cumbria Day on 23 January with a gin from a Cumbrian ginmaker. Celebrate everything that’s great about Cumbria with one of its gins. GINS of the NORTH WEST will guide you to the makers and distilleries from Carlisle in the north, through the Lakes, to Ulverston in the south. There are plenty gins to choose from:
Shed 1, Wolftown, Tirril Gins, Cumbria Distilling Co,
The Lakes Distillery, Wild Sheep Distillery,
Langtons No 1, Bedrock, Herdwick Distillery’s Yan Gin,
Cumberland Saucy Gin, Pennington Spirits’ Lakeland Moon Gin.
Cumbria is fertile ground for craft gins and since 2014 distillers have been creating gins across the county. There are now half a dozen gin distilleries in Cumbria and in addition, several people – since 2008 – have created their own gins which are made for them by other distillers.
Of course, gin needs juniper and Cumbria has plenty of it – both upland and lowland – and the dark blue berries in autumn will be a familiar sight up on the fells.
“We have more juniper in Cumbria than any other county in England,” Carrie Hedges, an expert on montane scrub and juniper at Cumbria Woodlands, told me for an article published in Cumbria Magazine.
My book Gins of the North West tells the stories of Cumbria’s gins and their makers … so you can pick the gin which suits your toast to Cumbria!
The GIN CLAN 