The company boast eight rum expressions including premium aged rums (Five Year, 13 Year) and spiced and flavoured rums including Honey, Coffee, Pineapple, Smokey Ginger, Spiced and the latest expression – Love Potion No.9, released for Valentine’s Day 2022.

To grow the brand further they have been working on designing a bespoke bottle where the brief was: beauty, form and function with a touch of elegance. They are delighted to announce that after two years in the planning they are about to reveal the rebrand at the end of the month. Distilled in Cornwall, Mainbrace Cornish Dry Gin is made in a traditional copper pot still, made using the London Dry style with no added sugars, sweeteners, essences, or other additives. The gin is made with Cornish water and local botanicals, namely lemon verbena harvested from St. Michaels Mount, and three different types of seaweed – Kelp, Dulse, and Sea Spaghetti – sourced from the Cornish Seaweed Company in Gweek. The gin has a unique taste, dominated by citrus notes, particularly lime, with secondary umami and slightly salty notes stemming from the seaweeds. Archie Rose has a strong ethos around supporting local producers and growers, a penchant for innovative collaborations, along with team members with strong ties to the Hunter Valley grape harvest write‐off due to Australia’s devastating 2019/2020 bushfires,” said Will Edwards, Archie Rose founder. “We therefore conceived the idea of a series of brandy‐related spirits to assist growers who suffered significant crop and income loss as a result of bushfire smoke taint.” These delicious hard seltzers are described as a 'no-nonsense' blend of fruit, sparkling water and alcohol. Since Ellen Wakelam and Alex Jungmayr founded In the Welsh Wind distillery in a converted cowshed in January 2018 the business has gone from strength to strength and now employs 15 staff, making award-winning gins both under the ‘In the Welsh Wind’ brand and for other brands and businesses as far afield as Japan. They are pioneering whisky made entirely in Wales from locally grown barley.This month is the launch of the first three in the range including; Gin & Tonic, Vodka & Lime and Rum & Cola, which are all infused with 10mg of CBD. A brand new cider from Thatchers has been unveiled – the mouth-wateringly juicy Thatchers Blood Orange Cider. This year (Covid-19 restrictions allowing), the 58 Gin team has also made a pledge to plant rounds of juniper bushes at Loddington Farm for future use in its gins. Butcombe Brewing Co (part of Liberation Group) has marked its foray into the No and Low drinks market with the launch of its very first draught and bottled low alcohol product – Goram IPA Zero (ALC less than 0.5%)

Gin is blazing a trail in making sustainable distilling work in an urban setting. So, what’s her advice for other eco-conscious city-based distillers wanting to do more? In recent years we have seen fundamental shifts in both the hospitality industry and in consumer preferences. Large parts of the hospitality industry have been suffering from the burden of expensive rents and high levels of capital expenditure, discount offerings, increased food prices and a shift to home delivery, all of which have been accelerated by Covid-19. At the same time, consumer preferences – in particular those of millennials – are shifting away from mid-market hospitality chains to experience-led, quality nights out in unique, local style venues. Their commitment to running as sustainable an operation as possible is what really sets 58 Gin apart. 58 MD Carmen O’Neal is passionate about sustainable spirits and playing a role in cultivating more connectivity in the local community and in the spirits industry to champion change for the better. Established in 2014, the distillery in Haggerston was built from a desire to “to demystify distillation, craft a sustainable neighbourhood business, and to act locally and think responsibly,” according to managing director Carmen O’Neal. Inside 58 GinThe day starts around six in the morning, when Mark and Carmen arrive and turn on their stills. Their botanicals have already been macerating overnight in the finest British wheat spirit. It takes twelve hours for Vera, the biggest still, to finish her work. But that’s just a rough guide. Multi-awarding winning Green Room Distillery was started in 2020 by two friends from the world of theatre, when Covid hit and stage doors closed. The US-import is a gluten-free, low calorie alcoholic sparkling water - and they're the perfect replacement for wine and beer. On 21 May, Archie Rose released 1,000 bottles of the eau‐de‐vie, which sold out by the end of the week – including the presale of 100 bottles of the future Hunter Valley Shiraz Brandy, which will be launched in four years. Mark says, “That’s the part I really enjoy: thinking about different botanicals and what we can do with them. Carmen has to keep me under control!”