Sipsmith Distillery
From: Sipsmith
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83 Cranbrook Road, Chiswick, London W4 2LJ |
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| +44 (0)208 747 0753 | |
| https://sipsmith.com/distillery-tours/ | |
| tours@sipsmith.com | |
| @sipsmith |
The first copper Distillery in London for nearly 200 years, Sipsmith craft gin of uncompromising quality and character. Public tours on Monday, Weds-Thursday. The Sipsmith Sipper club, includes a delicious 4 course meal at the beautiful Charlotte’s Bistro available on Tuesday nights. See website for more details.
Being handcrafted from copper allows Prudence and her sisters to create truly sippable spirits, through removing all impurities from the base spirit and botanicals. Prudence’s bespoke design combining a pot with a carter head and a column still makes her incredibly versatile, allowing her to distil all of our spirits – albeit with a cleaning day in between.
The distillery’s opening hours are 9-6pm from Monday-Thursday, and 9-4pm on Fridays, during which they are contactable by phone. They are closed at the weekend. Due to high demand for their Distillery tours and the health and safety parameters around a working gin distillery, unfortunately you have to prebook. If there is a particular tour that is sold out that you wish to attend, please do get in touch and they will do their best to accommodate you on a Distillery tour.
Sipsmith Distillery is open to the public
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Sipsmith brands
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Bold and Classic
Sipsmith London Dry Gin
A particularly dry gin with a zesty, citrus finish. The quintessential expression of a classic London Dry Gin. Bold, complex and aromatic – smooth enough for a Martini, yet rich Read more
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Sipsmith Origin 1639 Gin
Forget everything you think you know about gin’s past and discover our newly bestowed Sipsmith Origin 1639 gin. Inspired by the very recipe that sparked modern gin, tucked away in Read more
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Intense and Pine
Sipsmith V.J.O.P.
A desire to create the ultimate gin for juniper lovers took Master Distiller Jared Brown on a mission to distil a 'Very Junipery Over Proof Gin'. When increasing the flavour Read more
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Nuanced and Fruity
Sipsmith Sloe Gin
Truly handmade, complex & bursting with flavour. First the team at Sipsmith distil their award-winning London Dry Gin on our copper stills. Then they leave it to rest on wild sloe Read more
Sipsmith Very Berry Gin
Truly handmade, complex & bursting with flavour. Very Berry Gin, the fifth instalment in Sipsmith's limited edition Sipping Series. Sipsmith Very Berry Gin is expertly handcrafted, bursting with the flavours Read more
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Elegant and Spice
Sipsmith Raffles 1915
A timeless classic in the making, with delicately spiced botanicals, it is an embodiment of the Raffles legend as being an oasis for the well-travelled and the beating heart of Read more
Sipsmith London Cup
A reimagining of the traditional gin cups of the 1800’s. Sipsmith London Cup is a sublimely sippable punch crafted from their award-winning London Dry Gin, infused with Earl Grey tea, Read more
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Delicate and Citrus
Sipsmith Lemon Drizzle Gin
Starting life in the inaugural Sipsmith Sipping Society box, Lemon Drizzle Gin received such rave reviews it has now permanently joined the Sipsmith family. The recipe includes multiple different lemon Read more
Sipsmith Zesty Orange Gin
Sipsmith took their award-winning London Dry Gin and dialled up the citrus with fresh orange peel and zest for an orange gin that’s sure to brighten your summer sipping. Hand Read more
Sipsmith Distillery stills:
Prudence
Every curve of Sipsmith’s first still, Prudence, was designed by us with the help of Germany’s oldest still producers, Christian Carl – a small, family business who’ve been crafting stills since 1869. She is completely unique and the only one like this in the world.
Prudence was named somewhat ironically; while our then Prime Minister Gordon Brown was warning a recession-hit UK to become financially ‘prudent,’ Sam and Fairfax were busy selling their houses to fund her creation.
- Type: Carl pot with a carter head and a column still
- Installed: 2009
- Capacity: 300L
Patience
Patience started life as a rather smart maceration tank, but after 6 months of patiently waiting, we moved to our new, and slightly larger home in Chiswick, where she was fitted with her full headgear allowing her to fulfil her distilling potential.
- Type: Carl pot with a carter head and a column still
- Installed: 2013
- Capacity: 300L
Constance
Constance is use solely for the production of Sipsmith’s classic London Dry Gin, she is our rock of continuity and is their largest still with a capacity of 1500 Litres.
- Type: Carl pot with a carter head and a column still
- Installed: 2014
- Capacity: 1500 L
Verity
Verity is the same size as Constance and, after Prudence, the most versatile still at Sipsmith. Thanks to its vapour chamber
- Type: Carl pot with a carter head and a column still
- Installed: 2015
- Capacity: 1500 L
Cygnet
Like the three other stills, Cygnet was made especially for Sipsmith by the Carl family.
She weighs in at a 50-litre capacity, and she’s as close to a miniature replica of Prudence as possible, with a few small additions. She’s fitted with a ball helmet, which compresses her capacity to as little as 10 litres, allowing the team to make exciting and experimental small batches. She’s also outfitted with an interior shelf in the pot, which lets them vapour-infuse all manner of botanicals. And She is also electrical, which means more heat control on a smaller scale.
- Type: Carl Copper Pot Still
- Installed: 2015
- Capacity: 50 L
Sipsmith
It all began in 2009, in a tiny workshop in Hammersmith, London. Two childhood friends, Fairfax and Sam, had an unwavering belief in things well made - the way they Read more
Jared Brown, Sipsmith
“I believe good gin, like good wine, begins with fingers in the soil and ends with the guest experience,” explains Sipsmith Co-Founder and Master Distiller Jared Brown. Despite the phenomenal success of the brand, which famously challenged an antiquated British law preventing gin being made in small batches and won, the bedrock of their story is the belief that flavours Read more
News featuring Sipsmith Distillery
Sipsmith unveils Top Seed Gin distilled with Wimbledon Centre Court grass seed
Sipsmith has launched a limited edition gin infused with grass seed from Wimbledon's iconic Centre Court to celebrate its partnership with the tennis tournament. The gin, called Centre Court, blends classic botanicals with Wimbledon-inspired flavours to mark the 2025 Championships. Read more