Craft Ale And Spirits

INDIA PALE ALE 4.6% abv 

St Albans

Hertfordshire

Golden colour with an orange tint, brewed with five hops from the UK and USA and fermented longer to give a clean and dry finish.

Inspired by the New River's gentle gradient, Five-Inch Drop is a fine India Pale Ale made with selected malts and hops from the UK, New Zealand and the USA creating fresh citrus and pine needle flavours.

With the New River originally being supplied by two natural springs, the appropriately named Twin Spring is a 4% ABV, clear golden ale, with a light creamy head.

Brewed with Caramalt providing mellow, caramel flavours and Wai-iti hops from New Zealand creating a wonderful aroma of mandarin, lemon and lime zest

London Tap from New River Brewery in Hoddesdon.

3.8%

Refreshing, hoppy, citrussy pale ale.

Gold medal winner in the 2020 World Gin awards! 100% grape spirit infused with rosé wine and Saint Tropez botanicals including rose petals, coriander, lemons, oris and angelica roots. 

Country: France

Region: Provence

ABV: 43%

Grape Spirit

A botanical base of juniper, coriander, and angelica, with additions of cassia, lemon balm, elderberry, rowan, grapefruit and a hint of cardamom, which are sourced from English hedgerows and woods.

Country: England

ABV: 43%

A traditional Italian amaretto made with crushed almonds.

The name comes from a Venetian legend. Salizada refers to one of the first paved streets in Venice, where you can still find a red stone in the shape of a heart. When lovers touch it they will love each other for ever after.

Country: Italy

Region: Fruili

ABV: 28%

Grape Spirit

The Story of Tosolini

The special secret of Tosolini distilled spirits will never be revealed to anyone outside of the members of the family. The ancient art acquired by Master Distiller Bepi Tosolini continues to live on in the professional commitment that is displayed by the entire family, from Giovanni, who now heads the company, to his grandchildren Giuseppe, Bruno and Lisa.

The Tosolini family are committed to preserving and refining the knowledge that their grandfather Bepi acquired from the master distillers of the territory of Friuli. This philosophy has resulted in a continual search for improved product quality and purity, while maintaining the intuition and mastery displayed by Bepi Tosolini also resulted in some innovations in the production of distillates. Defined by a famous journalist from the specialised press as the “patriarch of the still”, Bepi arranged for some special steam stills featuring manual controls to be built, which are still used by the company today. In fact, the steam still does not “burn” the marc or the grapes, but instead delicately transports the alcoholic vapours to the top of the device, allowing a pure and aromatic distillate to be obtained.

Kalahari Truffles and Rooibos tea?! Not your average botanicals and not likely you've tasted anything like this before. 

Country: South Africa

Region: South Africa

ABV: 42%

Grape Spirit

KWV The Mentors

London Dry style gin crafted using botanicals unique to the Cape region. Kalahari Truffles, the signature botanical used and known locally as !N'abbas, can only be found by experienced truffle hunters after it rains, when the truffles swell up and create a distinctive cross shaped crack in the ground giving away their location. This cross in the land is where the gin derives its name from.

The gin is double distilled from grapes with more common botanicals juniper, coriander, cardamom, lemon, almond and aniseed and then two other more whackey South African botanicals, Rooibos and Honeybush, which compliment the truffle to give Cruxland gin a distinct South African character .

A gift box of three beers from the New River Brewery in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire.

New River Brewery Twin Spring

New River Five-Inch Drop

New River Brewery London Tap Pale Ale

Amber colored, with a soft, fragrant and velvety taste. The elegance of the almond oil delights the palate, accompanied by the final fruity and vanilla notes. Excellent at the end of a meal, perfect on ice cream and in cocktails.

Country: Italy

Region: Piedmonte 

ABV: 2%

The Quaglia Italian Classics were created with the aim of rediscovering family recipes, handed down from generation to generation since the early twentieth century, drawn from the passion and experience of four generations.  This Amaretto is made from an infusion of bitter almonds with alcohol, together with a selection of herbs and spices and sugar.

This all-natural Limoncello by the De Riso family is made from lemons harvested from the Amalfi coast, considered to be the best area for the lemons. This is one of the most high quality limoncello's we've ever tried!

Country: Italy

Region: Campania

ABV: 25%

Liqueur

Finished in Matusalém casks using only Palomino grapes and is aged for 12 years in Fino casks within a Solera system, where it develops a rich, unctuous profile full of ripe berries, sweet  spices and vanilla oak.

ABV: 36%

Hilbing is a mixture of five fine natural botanicals that combine harmoniously in both aroma and the fresh, delicate flavour particular to Hilbing. A truly Argentine spirit created from a combination of fresh juniper from Patagonia, Malbec raisins, petals of wild roses from the ‘Piedmont of Mendoza’ area, toasted coriander seeds and linden flowers.

Lots of dried fruit character of raisins and citrus peel followed by sweet spices such as nutmeg, clove and cinnamon. This is a full bodied gin for the Malbec drinker who has everything. Fruity, smooth palate finishing with a spicy tang characteristic of a Malbec wine.

Country: Argentina

ABV: 40%

A delicate Summer inspired London Dry Gin infused with locally foraged elderflower and raw Borage Honey. Perfect for Summer cocktails or a simple G&T in the (ever elusive) British sunshine!

40% ABV

Appearance: Pale, lemon-gold, greenish hues

Combining our classic approach of intertwining honey hues with a softer white floral element that adds clarity.

Bouquet: Fresh Elderflower, subtle cucumber, candied lemon

A unique take on our classic style. Gentle floral notes come through and are balanced by a precise cucumber character that sits firmly in the background alongside a candied lemon note, with the sweet scent of honey holding it all together

Taste: Waxy lemon, elderflower, cucumber

If this doesn’t instantly transport you to a village cricket pitch on an English Summer’s day, with the gentle hum of bees working away, nothing will!

The palate is fresh and crisp with a crunch of fresh bunches of elderflower that is wonderfully balanced by a cooling note of sweetened cucumber and earthy honey. The expectation is that the sweetness will stay, but it tenderly vanishes and leaves in its place a long finish of seasonal flowers, summer vegetables and sultry solstice honey.

Kaiyo Whisky is a fasciating whisky, starting out as a teaspooned malt (with the bulk of the malt whisky coming from one distillery, along with a drop of malt whisky from another distillery, meaning it can't be called a single malt). Matured in mizunara oak which imparts a wonderful array of flavours to the whisky, though its notoriously difficult for coopers to work with. It  also spends a portion of its maturation at sea, this evolves its flavour profile even further.

The Scalasaig ‘Island Hopper’ takes its name from the port village on the Isle of Colonsay where our company has its brewery/micro-distillery/headquarters.

43%

The Scalasaig ‘Island Hopper’ evokes a journey of discovery, setting out to source the finest casks of mature single malt from distilleries around the Scottish islands and coastlines.

These aged peated whiskies, selected from the Orkney isles right down to Islay, are vatted together and filled into fresh first-fill Spanish sherry oak casks to create an expertly crafted and perfectly balanced smoky-sweet Scotch
Only ever produced in small batches of 3,000 bottles, the
‘Maiden Voyage’ was released in September 2019!