PEAK ALES VISITOR CENTRE

VISITOR CENTRE
The brewery had left, but the barn is pretty special and we didn’t want to leave, so a brand new 3 stage plan to create a Brewery Visitor Centre & Gin Distillery was created, to consist of a brewery, a distillery, a shop and tasting room plus venue hire options.
Good things come to those who wait, after further renovations and hurdles similar to those we faced in the beginning, we completed the 1st and 2nd stage of this project by opening our brewery shop and venue hire in 2017 plus installing a 2.5 barrel pilot brewery in 2018, allowing us to experiment with new recipes and beer styles.
The start of Peak Gin, in 2019 we successfully installed our 72 litre hand crafted still, made by German company Arnold Holstein. The still took 7 whole months to arrive from order to delivery, and has been named ‘Isobel’, a family name of our directors, Rob & Debra Evans.
Our first tipple, Chatsworth Gin, uses botanicals from the Chatsworth Garden and Greenhouse including Lemon Verbena, Lemon Grass and the Imperial Lemon adding that natural freshness to the gin. Though the Imperial Lemons aren’t available all year round, regular lemons (still from the Chatsworth Greenhouse), are used otherwise, still providing a lovely tasting gin!

Most uniquely the leaves from the Cavendish banana, also from the Chatsworth Greenhouse, are used in this gin making it truly distinct.

We must also add, that the appearance of the bottle certainly looks luxurious and exactly what you’d expect of a high quality gin, that’s for sure!

The venue is available to hire for private functions, meetings and events, see more information below.

Keep an eye out for our various events starting again in spring 2020. Please note the tasting room is now bottle only until the New Year. The brewery shop is still open every day apart from January weekends.