BrewDog has said it plans to have as big an impact on the spirit sector as it has had in beer, when it launches its distillery next month.
The Lone Wolf Distillery will first produce a BrewDog vodka before moving on to gin, whisky and other spirits.
The group removed a section of its Ellon brewhouse roof and installed a 19m high 60-plate rectification column.
BrewDog stressed that while many distilleries buy in neutral spirit in bulk, it will distil everything from scratch. The head of our distillation team Steven Kersley is now dialling in the group’s gin recipe using the 50 litre pilot still, with over 30 different botanicals for trial, building up the flavour complexity.
The group said: “We want to stretch the boundaries of what a distillery can do – and what a distillery should do. Starting with our own all-grain distilled vodka, through our bespoke gins and whiskies and a range of other spirits besides – we can’t wait to make this natural progression for BrewDog and make as big an impact on the spirits industry as we did on the beer industry.”
