The distillery is home to a 100 litre traditional Alembic copper pot still named ‘Big Dug’ along with a smaller 10 litre development still fittingly named ‘Wee Dug’. Little Brown Dog have a short history speckled with excellent single cask and small batch drams, and are definitely an indie bottler to watch for the future. They testified that as the first students to arrive for the lecture they saw the dog in the passage in readiness for the demonstration and followed Bayliss (and his attendant) into the lecture room.

It seemed to Coleridge that it would be almost impossible to succeed by following that particular path, but one loophole remained. The inaugural gin from Little Brown Dog Spirits, this Scottish gin showcases a few unusual botanicals. Really liked the start of this and as a South Londoner appreciate this bit of history being resurrected. What they witness horrifies them and they swear to bring the perpetrator, a celebrated physician William Bayling to justice. However, with the election of a new Council of a different political hue, the situation changed and, on 9 March 1910, the Council approved the decision to remove the monument.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. They had been alone with the dog for about two minutes during which time they examined it themselves. Andrew had used the name Little Brown Dog to label original whisky bottling samples he shared with friends and the name came from Andrew’s pet dog who travels with him to tasting events and distillery visits. We recommend sensible footwear, weather appropriate clothing, the what3words app installed on your phone and an appetite for intense geekery!

The story is much more than a poor little brown dog as it covers what life was really like at that time. Little Brown Dog Spirits was officially established in 2018 by vet and whisky connoisseur Andrew Smith and farmer Chris Reid in rural Aberdeenshire. It described how the supposedly serious business of vivisection demonstrations in medical schools were often no more than entertainments.Enjoying the independence of creating unique and experimental spirits, including gin, the team plan on releasing a number of one-off limited edition spirits. Coleridge examined their material and was particularly struck by the evidence presented in a chapter entitled ‘Fun’ - in a later edition of ‘The Shambles of Science’ it was given the heading ‘The Vivisections of the Brown Dog’. In February 1903, Professor Starling opened up the dog’s abdomen to inspect the result of the first operation. The story of the Brown Dog and his memorial goes back to December 1902, when Professor Starling at University College London performed his first operation on the terrier dog, depriving it of the use of its pancreas.

Discover the philosophy behind Little Brown Dog's products, learn about how we built a library of local botanicals and challenge your perception of how to use local Aberdeenshire ingredients. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Puzzled by what he had witnessed and eager to find out more, Ford turned to a policeman standing nearby and asked what it meant. They carefully noted the facts of this case in their diary, in which they were recording the details of the experiments they had witnessed during their studies at UCL.My only quibble is that the author does like to use "annunciate" when she really means "enunciate" but hey - who's complaining? Stephen Coleridge, who took up the appointment of Honorary Secretary in 1897 (remaining until 1936) came from a family of committed anti-vivisectionists; his father had been one of NAVS’ vice-presidents and Stephen had not been converted to, but born into the cause. The issue of the Brown Dog was a key feature in the first undercover investigation of animal experiments by anti-vivisectionists, and the subject of the 1903 Bayliss-Coleridge libel case - Dr Bayliss of London University versus the Honorary Secretary of the National Anti-Vivisection Society. The distillery focuses on flavour and producing innovative spirits, including gin, that combine provenance and break down some of the traditions associated with the world of spirits.