Hills & Harbour Gin

Hills & Harbour Gin is Crafty Distillery’s flagship product. Taylor says he wanted to capture the sensory experience of Galloway in a bottle with a gin that was “balanced, vibrant and accessible”. The distillery crafts its own base alcohol and forages noble fir cones and bladderwrack seaweed locally to combine with the gin's nine other botanicals, which include juniper, orange peel, liquorice root, dried mango, bay leaf and green szechuan pepper. Due to the on-site distillation of the base alcohol (including a seven-day fermentation process), the production process for Hills & Harbour is much longer than other gins at around 13 days.

In creating the original recipe, Crafty Distillery sought help from hundreds of members of the public, sharing samples with them to get feedback for the final recipe. Taylor says, “All of the feedback and the trends showed us clearly what people wanted: a gin with big flavours, but not one that was unbalanced.”