Their final recipe includes the parks-inspired botanicals of garden mint, rosemary, chamomile flowers and rose petals, alongside more traditional botanicals including orange peel, coriander seed, cardamom and clove. It is made in the London dry style in small batches on Felicity, the couple’s 50-litre still. Ealing Summer Festivals – comprising the very best of Jazz, Blues and Comedy – has a new headline sponsor for 2022… the award winning, locally crafted Ealing Gin. The Ealing Summer Festival is a massively popular fixture on the West London summer social scene, attracting thousands of people and featuring some of the biggest names in comedy, jazz and blues. “We are delighted to have a local business as our headline partner, especially a brand that embodies everything we love about Ealing. We’ll be serving the beautiful gin at the bar and creating a chill-out Ealing Gin garden area for festival visitors to enjoy along with all the brilliant acts we’ve secured for this year’s stella line-up.”

Deep flavoured and well balanced with everything sitting gently on the junipers. It leads with zesty orange citrus combined with warm spice. Chamomile fills the gaps and has an overall smoothing effect. It leaves with a linger of subtle floral and peppery warmth. Refreshing, elegant and friendly.” We are proud to say, our super premium, award-winning London dry, Ealing Gin was selected by The Cask Spirit Company to produce its cask strength London dry gin. The unequivocal “qualification” for being a London Dry Gin is all about how it is made. All the flavour in a London Dry Gin must be created via the distillation process - absolutely no additives (flavour essences, colours etc) can be added afterwards. In short, with a London Dry Gin what you distill is what you get... there’s no messing about with the flavour afterwards. The line up of bands, artists and comedy acts this year is outstanding, it’s going to be 10 days of non-stop entertainment, fun and laughter at the end of July – just what we all need!

Highlighjts include: Chris Jagger, a tribute to Alexis Korner & The birth of British blues, Wilko Johnson, Robert Hokum and the Great West Groove big band plus many more old and new favourites The Cask Spirit Company has curated a cellar of exceptional cask-strength spirits (52-62% ABV) from a collection of renowned, award-winning distilleries, including Ealing Distillery.

The eagle eyed among you may, in the next few months, notice we’ve created a new, improved bottle. It is still stunning, the beautiful Art Deco inspired pattern is the same and it still shimmers in the sunlight or indeed the “spotlight”. BUT it is now way more environmentally friendly! So what do Amanda and Simon make of their new industry colleagues? “Gin people are so nice!” Amanda enthuses. “We were very aware that it is a saturated market, people were saying there was not space for another gin, but a lot of people told us to go for it and we have had a lot of support from the industry, other gin makers and suppliers. Winche is an independent wine merchant located in West Ealing. It offers ales, beers, ciders, spirits and wines from all over the world... many of which have been recommended by customers. Winche is known for its customer service. As you know, we have always been and will always be a premium, classy but most importantly, good spirited brand. We want to give people a beautiful sipping experience but we also want try to do some good as we build our business and be kind to both people and the environment so…

The base spirit must have originated agriculturally, and be of an ABV of 96%. This is subsequently redistilled with juniper, after which it has to come off the still at least 70% ABV. The subsequent concentrate, which goes on to be diluted with neutral spirit and water (to a strength not below 37.5% ABV), must be clear, not coloured. All flavour comes through the distillation; no additives.