Craft Gin Guide

The Craft Gin Guide is the only guide to Britain and Ireland's craft gin distilleries and gin bars.

This second edition of The Craft Gin Guide is an updated, revamped guide to all the best craft gins, gin bars and distilleries to visit across Britain and Ireland. It features returning distilleries and many new additions. This is a practical guide to sourcing and buying some superb gins with supplier’s addresses and websites. With more than 300 small batch distillers and dedicated gin bars in the UK and Ireland, here’s the perfect guide to help you discover them all. 

Many small gin distillers are not just producers but interesting places to visit for buying, for tasting and for learning about gin. This guide is filled with carefully researched information on those most worth seeking out. They are often run by enterprising, independent-minded people who are fun to meet. 

• Discover the best bars– all the UK’s cities have gin bars, with London and Edinburgh having the most
• Seek out the best distillers – distillers, although concentrated in the cities, can also be found deep in the heart of the countryside. This guide has one or two page entries on who we feel are the most interesting and worth discovering
• Know your craft gin – discover the range of brands and tastes available
• All the essential information – opening times of bars and distilleries, web addresses, plenty of photographs plus interesting things to do and see nearby, making gin a fun day out

Written by the internationally renowned gin expert, David T. Smith, here is an invaluable guide to the finest gins being produced in Britain and Ireland. This is an ideal gift for the gin lover in your life as well as being a handy personal reference.