Sipsmith Gin

And then I'd begun to read a little bit of research about the U.S. craft distilling boom that was in whiskey.

And the way that it had translated itself across the Atlantic, which is pretty much Ian Hart at Sacred Gin and at Sipsmith, they started about the same time.

was into gin and we're a gin drinking country and gin has its benefits in the sense that it doesn't have to be aged for three years to go to market.

I thought that was amazing that you could create a commercially viable product on a very small scale.

I didn't have huge budgets.

I had about 50,000 pounds.

wouldn't even buy me the same still that Sipsmith had.

I decided then and there that I was going to launch a gin brand, make my own product, and I wasn't going to do it in London.

Or a coastal or a mineral tonic that have got a hint of the salt and maritime botanicals in it.

So probably even that last Sipsmith, whatever we had.

What was the tonic that we had a minute ago? Oh, the Tasmanian.

Yeah.

First came across brand education.

I met, uh, Jared Brown and Stacia Miller from Sipsmith and immediately, like, fell in love with them.

They've been mentors ever since.

I was literally texting them this morning.