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Find out what goes into your favourite Adnams products and even make your own, by joining a tour or taking part in an experience. Choose from our range of brewing and distilling experiences below. You'll be an expert in no time. You'll also find us in fields or behind the bar at festivals and exciting events throughout the year. Come along to talk beer, wine, and spirits. Click here to find out more about our events.

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Lighthouse Tour

Enjoy the breathtaking views from the top of the Southwold Lighthouse. Led by an experienced Tour...

Brewery Tour

Discover how we brew your favourite beers, with an Adnams Brewery Tour. Led by an experienced Tou...

From £25.00

Distillery Tour

Discover how we craft your favourite spirits with an Adnams Distillery Tour. Led by an experience...

Make Your Own Gin

Craft a bespoke bottle of gin that’s tailored to your taste, with an Adnams Make Your Own Gin exp...

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Cocktail Discovery Masterclass

On this grain-to-glass experience, you will discover how our award-winning spirits are made and t...

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From £50.00

Catered Group Tours 

Served with a Suffolk breakfast or a delicious Adnams lunch, yum yum!

Minimum of 8 people per group.

We host a number of Adnams events, and also take part in other special occasions throughout the year.

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Tour Adnams Distillery in Southwold & Taste Suffolk Gin, Vodka and Whisky

by The Foodie Travel Guide | Nov 9, 2016

Adnams is the first brewery in England to produce high quality spirits directly from malted grains all the way through to the finished product. Take the Adnams distillery tour for a taste of how it’s done.

How to Find Adnams Copper House Distillery in Southwold

Adnams Distillery, East Green, Southwold,Suffolk, IP18 6JW

The Foodie Travel Guide

Sally is the founder and editor of The Foodie Travel Guide. She travels around the UK and beyond in search of the best foodie days out, tasting experiences and delicious places to stay. She loves a glass of English sparkling wine, afternoon tea with friends and escaping London for gastronomic adventures. 

Adnams Distillery Tour

• Tour Adnams Copper House distillery
• Admire the view of Southwold
• Taste Adnams gin, vodka and whisky in the bar
• ‘Make your own gin’ experiences available

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EXPERIENCE ADNAMS

At Adnams, there is so much to enjoy!  See how our beers and spirits are lovingly made in Southwold with a brewery or distillery tour, or make your own gin with one of our Adnams gin makers.   The Swan Afternoon tea is a must or enjoy a tasty lunch in one of our other Adnams pubs.  You can even gift these experiences to friends and loved ones.

BREWERY & DISTILLERY TOURS

See how our award-winning beers and spirits are lovingly made in Southwold.  Hidden behind our Victorian façade on Victoria Street lies a cutting edge brewery and distillery.  Check it out and taste our exciting product range for yourself.

GIFT VOUCHERS

Enjoy everything Adnams has to offer.  Choose any one of our beautiful coastal locations from Southwold to Blakeney, Walberswick to Aldeburgh, and treat yourself or a loved one to afternoon tea, lunch, dinner or even an overnight stay.

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Adnams Tours and Experiences

Fancy doing something a little bit different? Take a tour of the Adnams Sole Bay Brewery and Copper House Distillery in the heart of Southwold where Adnams have been brewing since 1872. 

Behind the walls of a stunning Victorian building on East Green lies one of the most modern breweries in the UK.  In 2010, Adnams added a micro distillery too, so why not immerse yourself in an Adnams tour or experience while you are in town.

You can choose from a variety of tours and experiences including;

• Brewery Tour
• Distillery Tour
• Southwold Lighthouse Tour
• Make your own Gin experience
• Cocktail Discovery Masterclass
• Gin Remake experience

You'll be an Adnams Expert in no time!

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When you stay with us at The Swan, you are just a few steps away from our world-famous brewery and distillery in the heart of Southwold, so why not take advantage and book one of our Adnams tours.

Find out how we make our award-winning beers and spirits, and get a taste of them first-hand. You can even get creative and make your own gin to take home with you.

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The Adnams team have two unique and memorable gins, one of which was even voted “World’s Best Gin 2013” - quite the accomplishment for a distillery that’s less than a decade old…

Adnams distillery based in Sole Bay Brewery in Southwold has been brewing beers since 1872 and have recently expanded their repertoire to spirits, namely handcrafted Vodka, Whisky and now Gin. Although beer still plays a central part in their every creation – yes even in the gin - in 2008, the chairman of Adnams brewery began exploring the idea of distilling. Following years of hard work, the distillery was up and running in early 2010.

This meant that the entire distilling production - from grain to glass – is now undertaken in-house, an impressive feat that is noteworthy not just for the level of care that is placed in each step, but also because Adnams are one of very few distilleries who have the ability to actually do this.

Fergus Fitzgerald doesn’t only have a name with great alliteration on the tongue, but is also Adnams Masterbrewer . With East Anglian malted barley as the base for the gin, he begins the process of crafting the gin by creating a beer ‘wash’ which is fermented to around 6% ABV without the addition of hops. Once it is at this stage, the wash is then put in the very capable hands of Head Distiller John McCarthy, where it takes a journey through their beautiful stills, winding it’s way up and down columns and more spirit geekery happens until a pure, clean spirit is created.

Talking to Gin Foundry in late 2015, McCarthy outlined this early process: “The first part for us is to make a Wash (basically a beer with no hops), which is made in our brewhouse and fermented using Adnams 80 year old yeast. This is then pumped into the distillery and, using a Beer Stripping Column, is converted to what we call Low Wines.

This is around 80% ABV, but still contains all the higher alcohols and fusel oils which need to be separated out. The next stage is to do this, this time using our pot still, in conjunction with rectifying columns and a polishing column. The rectifying columns, use 40 plates to get the spirit to above 96% and allow us to separate into Heads, Hearts and Tails. The Polishing Column, removes any Methanol in the spirit, another legal requirement.”

However at this point it is still not yet gin… sigh.

And so the spirit retraces its journey to the copper pot still one last time to become gin. It’s reduced to 50% ABV where juniper, along with six other botanicals are added directly to the spirit in the copper pot still, where after an overnight maceration, it is distilled.

Adnams Distilled Gin to taste…

Adnams Distilled Gin (also known as Adnams Copper House Gin ) is made with juniper berries, orris root, coriander seed, cardamom pod, sweet orange peel and hibiscus flower. The cardamom & hibiscus flower burst through in the gin. It’s a touch oily and has a particular mouth feel – perfect for a Dirty Martini. The Hibiscus, while not unique to Adnams Gin , sets its flavour profile apart and makes the gin quite distinct. The bitter, floral flavours of the petals make for quite a particular taste and it’s one to seek out if you see it on the shelf of a bar.

First Rate Finest Cut Gin to taste…

Not content with just one gin, they also produce a second called First Rate Finest Cut Gin . This is a much bigger beast in comparison to its sister. Made with a complex blend of 13 botanicals rather than six, and a higher ABV of 48%, it feels like a bolder, more potent gin. With the usual suspects in the botanical mix (juniper berries, coriander seed, cardamom pod, orange peel & liquorice root) it delivers aromatic spices mingled with a softened Juniper and hints of citrus. The more unusual vanilla pods, caraway seeds, fennel seeds and thyme add to what is a really complex mix. It’s very balanced too, with the juniper re-emerging on the finish.

Gin lovers will definitely gravitate towards the First Rate Gin, however that’s not being dismissive of the regular Copper House Gin, it’s just that the higher ABV and more complex botanical mix has a magnetism that a simpler offering can’t deliver. Copper House Gin is a good, classic London Dry gin with a unique flavour twist, First Rate Gin however is a class apart.

Adnams Distillery is a must visit for any spirits fan in the UK too. The tour around the Southwold based distillery is both great fun and highly engaging. The glorious copper still sits in the refurbished Copper House. The glazed front gives visitors a glimpse into the world of Adnams and their handsome copper distillery chamber, not to mention the panoramic views across the countryside and out to the roaring sea.

The Adnams empire incorporates five hotels, 70 pubs, ten Adnams Cellar & Kitchen stores as well as an online store. The Adnams brewery lays claim to one of the most energy efficient in the UK, with hot water by-product being reused to wash casks and all distilling waste being processed in their anaerobic digestion plant. In plain English, it’s converted into renewable gas to power their production line. Impressive! The gins they have created extend on this expansive portfolio, but crucially, have been made with an astute sense of balance and individuality - making them much more than just another Adnams product in stores.

If you see either of the Adnams Gins on the shelf, don’t hesitate to taste them – they are well worth it.

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• Sun - Sat 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• (0.03 km) 7 Church Street, Southwold, Southwold
• (0.03 km) 7 CHURCH STREET, SOUTHWOLD, pet friendly, with open fire in Southwold
• (0.04 km) Anchors Aweigh
• (0.05 km) Smugglers Cottage - Three Bedroom House, Sleeps 6
• (0.05 km) Danby Cottage
• (0.05 km) The Swan Hotel Restaurant
• (0.13 km) Ninedeli
• (0.12 km) Coasters
• (0.11 km) Sole Bay Inn
• (0.09 km) Two Magpies Bakery

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