About LYTHAM GIN
OUR STORY
With hindsight, the decision to create Lytham Gin was an obvious one. Sara, the founder of Lytham Gin is a chemistry graduate and ex-teacher who specialises in organic molecules (yes a real-life Walter White) this gave her all the tools to be able to create the most delicious gin. Paul, the co-founder, used to specialise in manufacturing processes and systems at one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world. Ben, Sara and Pauls son, studied marketing at university and has taken the lead of branding and marketing since graduating. Making Sandgrown Spirits truly a Sandgrown family business.
We wonder why it took us so long to come up with the idea in the first place!
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Creating the business and learning about how to make gin with all the different styles and tastes gin has to offer has been one of the most interesting and exciting periods of our lives. We are constantly improving and learning new things with our only aspiration to make the best spirits possible and to constantly produce a quality product.
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We do not have any aspirations to be the new Hendricks, for us the most important thing is producing small-batch gin with love and authenticity. We hope this comes across in everything we do. Keep browsing through our site to learn more.
Our Sandgrown Spirit
INSPIRED BY THE SEA
You may be wondering why we called our company Sandgrown Spirits. Well, Sandgrown'uns is a term used to refer to people who have been born and raised on the Fylde coast. This beautiful coastline of England was laid down by a glacier at the end of the last ice age and has a plethora of naturally growing botanicals that we take full advantage of.
The varied coastline and natural botanicals in the area inspired our first spirit, LYTHAM ORIGINAL DRY GIN. We believe we were the first gin brand to use samphire as a botanical as it grows in the marshes along the coast and we take a trip every few months to pick some fresh for our gin. Samphire is what gives our gin a silky smooth mouth feel.
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A SANDGROWN'UN AND PROUD LANCASTRIAN.
Our PHILOSOPHY
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Sandgrown Spirits is one of the UK’s leading and most awarded craft spirit producers. It all began with a long-held love for the juniper-predominant spirit and a dream to craft the best-tasting gin in the world.
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Before crafting the first gin, our founder Sara Dewhurst spent years sampling different gins from around the world, talking to mixologists and distillers to discover the flavour profiles she wanted to create and share.
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Serious about flavour
Whilst our branding is a little playful, Sara is totally serious about flavour, mouthfeel and provenance. As a result, all of our range is unapologetically packed with favour, using the best possible ingredients, which, where possible, we either grow ourselves or are locally foraged. As we say, there is a little bit of Lancashire in every drop!
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Elsie, our beautiful copper still uses a heated water jacket to gently extract as much flavour as possible from the botanicals infused in the finest barley grain spirit.
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Serious about quality
Sara uses the skills she gained as an industrial chemist to ensure that all parts of the process from sourcing ingredients to distilling and bottling, which are all done in-house, are controlled with a total focus on quality.
Serious about innovation
Every batch is a learning opportunity, Sara tastes each batch to ensure the flavour remains true to the original recipe, tweaking it to compensate for the variations in the natural ingredients used and as a chance to continuously enhance and improve the flavour profile.
