Foraging and Gin Making Class Using Wild Botanicals

In partnership with the wonderful folks at Silver Circle Distillery we are offering you the unique opportunity to spend an afternoon foraging for wild Welsh ingredients, before enjoying a couple of craft cocktails during an introduction to gin-making and botanicals from expert distillers, then using your chosen blend of selected pickings to distil your very own bottle of bespoke gin, or vodka, in a miniature copper still, to take home and enjoy!This is a 4 hour experience, beginning at 11.30am with an immersion into foraging along the Severn Estuary coastal flats, meadows & hedgerows. We will meet in a car park close to the Severn Bridge, from where we will embark on an approximately 1.5 hour gentle guided walk of an incredibly bountiful area, with beautiful views across the River Severn. Along the way I will introduce you to a myriad of remarkable seasonal wild ingredients with incredible flavours and aroma profiles which lend themselves excellently to spirit-making. I will teach you about each plant, how to find and identify them, pick them and how best to capture their essence in your signature creation. Any flavours which excite you, we will pick a handful of for you to use to create your signature gin or vodka!Once we have collected our freshly foraged ingredients, we will take a 25 minute scenic drivethrough the Wye Valley, to Silver Circle's new Distillery HQ just outside Monmouth, on Kate Humble's farm 'Humble by Nature'. Upon arrival, you will enjoy a refreshing Wye Valley gin & tonic, expert distillers will then explain and demonstrate how gin is made and you can sample several varieties of their award-winning craft gin and other cocktail lines, whilst learning about botanicals and how to create an original and tasty gin or vodka recipe, which you will then produce in your own miniature copper still! Finally you will blend, measure and bottle your unique 70cl creation to take home and savour whilst remembering your wonderful afternoon of foraging & distilling in the Wye Valley! Your signature 70cl gin to take home. Read more details