Stirling Distillery
Stirling Distillery is based in Stirling, and offers a professional and friendly team to help you have a great time and enjoy the experiences available.
We are a small family-run distillery creating hand crafted gin and whisky in the historic ‘Old Smiddy’ building. Our products celebrate the rich history and folklore of Stirling.
Sample our award-winning nettle-based classic gin, try our independent whisky range, or indulge in our Bloody Scotland cocktail designed for the annual Crime Writing Festival.
You can even create your very own gin at our award-winning gin school. Voted Visitor Attraction of the Year at the Stirling Business Awards, we offer daily gin and whisky tastings, distillery tours and a weekly gin school so book a visit today!
Activities at Stirling Distillery include:
- Stirling Distillery Whisky Experience
- Stirling Distillery Gin Experience
- The Old Smiddy Gin School
We have also included their opening times and contact details. If you have any questions, you can contact the venue directly.
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Stirling
Stirlingshire
FK8 1EN
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Stirling Distillery Gin Experience
Age Appropriate
- Adults
Location
- Indoor
A guided tour of the distillery complete with a bespoke cocktail on arrival, a perfect G&T, samples of our Red Cap, Green Lady and Tropical Triumph liqueurs as well as a dram of our 55% Battle Strength Gin and Stirling Pink.
You will be welcomed to our distillery with a bespoke cocktail, lovingly crafted and beautifully served.
Our tour guide will take you through the history of our brand and how we came to own Stirling’s first legal distillery, followed by some of Stirling City’s most fascinating stories.
From there you will be shown our still room and bottling and packaging space while getting an in-depth insight into how gin is created and distilled.
After this you will be directed to our unique tasting tables where you will be told the stories about the mythology and history behind our products names.
Your tour will conclude with being shown how to make the perfect G&T. You will also be given samples of our Red Cap, Green Lady and Tropical Triumph liqueurs as well as a dram of our 55% Battle Strength Gin and Stirling Pink.
Useful Information
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Minimum age: 18+
The Old Smiddy Gin School
Age Appropriate
- Adults
Location
- Indoor
Learn to distil your very own bottle at Stirling Distillery
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You will be welcomed to our distillery with our bespoke welcome cocktail, shown our stunning Victorian building and seated at your very own mini still.
One of our passionate staff members will then give you a run down of gin’s history, from its medical uses to binge drinking in the slums of London all the way through to today’s Scottish gin craze. They will then talk you through the science of gin distilling and show you a selection of beautiful botanicals which you will choose from to make an entirely unique gin all of your own.
Over two hours you will charge your still, choose your flavours, test the gin as it comes off the condenser and bottle it with your personalised Old Smiddy Gin School label to take home.
To finish up, you will enjoy a Stirling Gin perfect serve alongside a G&T made from your very own creation.
Useful Information
- Duration: 2.5 hours
- Minimum age: 18+
Stirling Distillery Whisky Experience
Age Appropriate
- Adults
Location
- Indoor
Join us on the next step of Stirling Distillery's whisky journey. Visitors will be welcomed in by their passionate tour guide, taken through a brief history of Stirlingshires rich whisky background and gain an insight into the further progression on our quest to create our very own single malt.
You will enjoy our newmake spirit followed by a selection of four different drams from our Sons of Scotland independent bottling range which are all single cask malt whiskys.
Useful Information
- Duration: 1 hour
- Minimum age: 18+