Brewery Shop Tasting - Surrey Copper Distillery
Join us on Good Friday (3rd April) for a Brewery Shop Tasting in the company of The Surrey Copper Distillery.
This independently owned distillery, based just down the road in the beautiful Surrey Hills, will be here with a library of their finest hand-crafted gins, vodka and rum including:
Copperfield Volume 1 Juniper Gin
Copperfield Volume 2 Floral Gin
Copperfield Volume 3 Orange Spice Gin
As well as Sanditon Golden Rum and Mad Hatter Vodka.
Plus the team will be revealing a new release of gin.
No need to book. Just turn up between 12pm – 4pm.
If you like what you try, there’s 10% off any two bottles.
About The Surrey Copper Distillery
Copperfield
We named our gin Copperfield in tribute to the fortuitous find amongst Charles Dickens Collected Works.
The Dickensian links don’t stop there. We have made the beautiful Surrey countryside our home and we are a stone’s throw from The White Horse in Dorking where Charles Dickens penned the Pickwick Papers. Often referencing gin in his books, Dickens enjoyed spirits and perhaps gin most of all. In Pickwick Papers he coined the name Whistling Shop for a place where spirits and particularly gin were sold. In David Copperfield, Mr Macawber orders a gin punch and quickly forgets his troubles! Dickens himself reputedly collected gins in his cellar and one of his favourite drinks was a Mint Julip which was a wonderfully refreshing combination of gin, lemon juice and mint, regularly served at his Doughty Street soirées.
Our gin is made with botanicals from the field and in a copper pot still. The Copperfield name beautifully combines the two.
Sanditon Rum
Sanditon is Jane Austen’s unfinished novel and has recently been the subject of an ITV adaptation.
Jane Austen lived in the Hampshire village of Chawton, near Alton and it is in this house (now a museum) where she wrote and revised all of her novels. The house is a mere 30 miles from our distillery. The cast of characters includes Miss Georgina Lambe, referenced as “a young West Indian of large fortune”. The links provide an apt backdrop for our Sanditon Rum which is a great addition to our library of spirits.
Mad Hatter Vodka
Lewis Carroll was a 19th century English author, best known for his books Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass.
Lewis Carroll is associated with Guildford, Surrey where his sister lived and where he himself passed away in his sister’s house in 1898. He is interred at Mount Cemetery in Guildford, and the city now has a number of statues, a Lewis Carroll trail and the Guildford Museum has a collection of Lewis Carroll and Alice memorabilia.
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