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Article: Micro-distillery provides tonic for London gin
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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Artisan brand is first to be made in capital for 200 years
THE HISTORY of London's gin industry is peppered with tales of
small-scale producers boiling up heady spirits in tiny sheds. So it
was natural that the first copper still to be built in the capital
for 189 years would be in a tin-roofed suburban garage in
Hammersmith.
The still, which is called Prudence and which produces Sipsmith
London Dry Gin, was the brainchild of two childhood friends who sank
their life savings into reinvigorating the production of London dry
gin in its native city.
Fairfax Hall and Stamford Galsworthy, the founders of the micro-
distillery, are catching the attention of a discerning clientele far
removed from ...