Bay Distilleries

bay distilleries started in our heads at virtually the same time, in fact the same evening, chatting on a certain famous multimedia platform. we are chris and jonathan, two friends that frequently share too many gin and tonics. we came to the conclusion that with jonathan’s experience in the brewing industry and chris’s experience in chemical engineering, we could take over the world, or at least make a fine gin that we would love to drink on well, every occasion. we pooled our savings and bought a tiny 1 litre still and started developing flavours on chris’s kitchen table. after some questionable but still drinkable beginnings, we discovered a particularly delicious flavour combination of 3 peels, grapefruit, orange and lime which feature in all our gins and give a familiar feeling across the range. we were eventually evicted from the kitchen and set up in ‘the old piggery’ a 17th century two story barn where we scaled up our operation in “cockles” our copper pot still. signature gin