Adnams Copper House Distillery

Adnams Copper House Gin

The team at Adnams redistill Adnams East Coast Barley Vodka with a special selection of botanicals to create Copper House Gin. East Coast Vodka is made from a distillery wash of 100% East Anglian Malted Barley. This wash is fermented with Adnams house yeast to around 6% ABV, before being sent to the distillery. Their small batch distillation uses authentic copper stills to produce an exceptional spirit with a remarkable depth of flavour. They add juniper, sweet orange peel and hibiscus, as well as a special blend of botanicals to our gin still before redistilling to create our fruity, floral Copper House Gin.

Adnams First Rate Gin

Adnams from grain to glass, The Adnams First Rate gin is distilled from three locally-grown grains: barley, wheat and oats. Adnams Master brewer, Fergus Fitzgerald, makes a beer 'wash' from these grains which is fermented to around 6% abv without the addition of hops. Then head distiller, John McCarthy takes this beer and puts it through a 'beer stripping' column which removes all the alcohols to create a 'low wine' (around 80 - 85% abv). The 'low wines' are subsequently distilled in rectification columns to create a clean, pure spirit. Only the very purest portion of the spirit is drawn off; the finest cut. The spirit is then returned to the copper pot still to be redistilled and infused with thirteen carefully chosen botanicals.

Adnams Copper House Pink Gin

Adnams Copper House Pink Gin is made from grain to glass using East Anglian malted barley which is first brewed into an unhopped beer before being distilled to a vodka with exceptional purity at 96% abv. They then redistil this vodka with six botanicals - juniper berries, orris root, coriander seed, cardamom pod, sweet orange peel and hibiscus flower to create their award-winning Dry Gin. Then they add raspberry to create those amazingly vibrant fruity aromas. It's a fun, pink twist on their great gin.  

Adnams Rising Sun Gin

Adnams Rising Sun Gin is made from grain to glass using East Anglian malted barley which is first brewed into an unhopped beer before being distilled to a vodka with exceptional purity at 96% abv. They then redistil this vodka with six botanicals - juniper berries, orris root, coriander seed, cardamom pod, sweet orange peel and hibiscus flower to create our award-winning Dry Gin. Made from rye grown by Jonathan Adnams at his farm in Reydon on the Suffolk coast. Refreshing gin with matcha tea and lemongrass.  

Adnams Sloe Gin

A truly distinctive, heart-warming, traditional-style Sloe Gin. Ruby red in colour, gentle aromas of red plums blend with a soft and gentle hint of marzipan. Sweetness and the natural bitterness of the sloes are perfectly balanced on the palate which is smooth and round, with a luscious, creamy texture.

Adnams Copper House Blackcurrant Gin

When the team at Adnams decided to produce a fruit-forward, hedgerow-style gin, they wanted to ensure they could use locally grown fruit in the recipe. They found out that blackcurrants were available in abundance in East Anglia, which was fortunate, as they were going to need lots of them. Copper House Blackcurrant Gin joins the family, alongside Copper House Dry Gin, and Copper House Pink. Like its relatives, it starts life as East Coast Vodka, which this time we have redistilled with blackcurrant puree and a complementary selection of botanicals.

Adnams Orange and Sea Buckthorn Gin

With a whirl of fresh orange juice, pineapple, peaches, and tropical fruit flavours, this is an intensely fruity seasonal gin. Sea buckthorn grows wild all along the sandy east coast of Britain and can be found amongst the dunes at Holkham in North Norfolk. The berries on this hardy, salt-tolerant plant are small, but when crushed they release amazingly intense tropical fruit aromas.

Adnams Smidgin

It might look small, but Smidgin is mighty in flavour, as it is made to do more with less. It’s a gin for making a low alcohol G&T, but it’s actually packed with 10 times the botanicals for big gin flavour. It’s distilled in the same way as all Adnams gins, but Adnams increase the intensity of its six-ingredient recipe, so all you need is a Smidgin with your tonic for a full-flavoured, low alcohol G&T.

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Come and explore behind the scenes and discover how they create their award-winning spirits, or get creative and make your very own gin! Tours of the Adnams distillery run every day price £10 per person (over 18s only) Behind the walls of Adnams' Victorian building lies one of the most modern breweries in the UK, to which they have now added a distillery.

John McCarthy, Adnams Gin

Adnams is just ten years young in the spirits industry, but nearly 150 years’ experience as a brewery has given the Suffolk-based business both a head-start and a setback in gin making. The company started in 1872 and evolved from a brewery supplying local pubs into a wine merchant and hotelier. However, Adnams’ relatively recent ambition as a distiller hung in the balance thanks to an outdated law that prohibited breweries and distilleries being on the same site. John McCarthy, Head Distiller at Adnams, explained: “This, we believe, stemmed back to the way duty was paid on malted barley in…