1st June 2020
Our old lady junipers are gulping down all this sunshine producing some of the most beautiful juicy berries, that will soon be ready for harvesting. •Happy June everyone hope you had a lovely weekend? We have got a great giveaway happening this month, keep your eyes peeled, it’s not to be missed! – from Instagram
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28th May 2020
Hepple is for those who believe in vivid colour – even at the risk of an ever-so-slight clash… we have been producing for over five years now and travelling around the world to explain who we are and why make our products in the way we do. And what we have found is that in overwhelming numbers, the people who love our gin are those who stand out from the crowd. Frankly speaking, some of you are a little colourful. Yes, you know who you are. Sometimes you clash. But we quite like that. That’s why we get on. – from Instagram
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24th May 2020
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks – John Muir – from Instagram
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22nd May 2020
Hepple water arrives in the mists and clouds that roll over the empty hills that surround us. Not a drop flows from neighbouring land; all fell from above and has spent years percolating through the sandstone and limestone strata to emerge at the juniper belt across our hills in myriad springs. When we say it is pristine, we really do know it is. This same water feeds our juniper, runs our distillery and then freezes in our radiators over Christmas when we are away. – from Instagram
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21st May 2020
In these strange times, nature provides a great escape for all of us. The simple sounds of the birds, the light aromas of spring flowers in bloom, they are the constant pleasures that will keep us all going. – from Instagram
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18th May 2020
This week we are giving our followers a chance to win Hepple Gin! All you have to do is take a photo of your favourite at home cocktail and tag @hepple_spirits using the hashtag #heppleathome T’s and C’s in comments below. Good luck! – from Instagram
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15th May 2020
The gnarled and twisted habit of juniper makes every tree entirely unique and thick with personality. In the eyes of the dull and prosaic – and we know no one who reads our posts is that – the bald reason for these rope-like twists is the battering the trees take from the winds that wail over the moors, but we suspect our readers will feel more sympathy with the idea that actually juniper just simply LIKES it that way. Yes, It gets a kick out of its wild contortions, it rather admires its neighbour’s skew-whiff haircut, it aims for the unusual, the unruly, the controversial. We think, as we ourselves age, we’ll be the same, won’t we? – from Instagram
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12th May 2020
Hawthorn bushes produce the brightest red berries in the winter and stunning white and pink flowers in the spring, and they are beginning to come out now. We reckon we are about three weeks behind London, Hamburg and Copenhagen, a month behind Milan… but almost exactly the same time as New York City… ie now. Friends in New York, I do recommend looking at the nycgovparks site to find your nearest flowering hawthorn in NYC – from Instagram
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11th May 2020
The sounds of nature . The weather has taken a bit of a chilly turn, but the sweet sound of running water and fresh cold air are getting us in the mood for a Hepple Martini. – from Instagram
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9th May 2020
The perfect day to head out foraging ingredients from Hepple for this delicious Nettle Gimlet by @the_cocktailguy #repost. •60ml Hepple Gin, 25ml Nettle Cordial, 1 Dash Tarragon & Grapefruit Bitters.•𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙽𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝙲𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚕.𝚈𝚒𝚎𝚕𝚍𝚜 𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚡: 𝟸𝟻𝟶𝚐𝚛—————1. Collect and wash 20gr Nettles.2. Place a pan containing 200ml water on the hob.3. Bring to a gentle simmer, add nettles and infuse for 5-8 mins.4. Allow to cool and filter.5. Mix in 100gr of Sugar as well as 2gr Tartaric Acid & 4gr Lactic acid.6. Bottle.•𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚘𝚗 & 𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚏𝚛𝚞𝚒𝚝 𝙱𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜. 𝚈𝚒𝚎𝚕𝚍𝚜 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚡: 𝟷𝟶𝟶𝚐𝚛—————1. Add 7.5gr Tarragon to 100gr The Bitter Truth Grapefruit Bitters.2. Infuse for 48 hours3. Filter & bottle. – from Instagram
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7th May 2020
@walter_at_hepple Douglas fir to Rotovap, Now’s the time. #thewildnesstonic #botanicals #distilling – from Instagram
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5th May 2020
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous” – Aristotle – from Instagram
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4th May 2020
Starting a new week breathing in the fresh air on the moors of Hepple, checking up on our juniper babies and old ladies . Hope you all had a good weekend and a few G&T’s along the way? – from Instagram
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25th April 2020
There is only one cocktail. There is only one @nickstrangeway and, to make a martini … there is only one gin & this, surely is the day to make one. Watch the maestro in chillier, easier times take the steps to this most complex cocktail. Nick once said that of all the drinks he is ever asked to make, the martini is the one that he approaches with the most apprehension, but we who have had one made by him know what magic this witchdoctor conjures. But it’s ingredients are very few and of all cocktails it is perhaps the most single-minded in its celebration of the complexities of gin, and therefore in Hepple Gin, of the wondrous qualities of the juniper berry – fresh, invigorating, colder than a dip in a hilltop pool. Bottles available from our website and delivered with extraterrestrial rapidity by the marvellous @hepple_chris, £9.30 of every bottle goes towards @hospitalityaction. #timeforamartini #juniper – from Instagram
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23rd April 2020
“Sweet Gale” is how Bog Myrtle likes to be called at smart dinner parties, but given the legendary aphrodisiac qualities of this most scarlet-haired wild beauty, it is likely that the mask might slip a little through the evening… we’re talking here of the unruly Hepple botanical, rather than the marginally greying male pushing in from the right, whose qualities fall far from the aphrodisiacal (ed – quite enough now….). So we watch the glorious red blooms emerge and then puff their luminous green pollen in clouds in the wind, waiting for the similarly luminous green leaves to curl out in June. There is an aroma of bay, an earthy, grassy eucalyptus scent on the Hepple winds tonight.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀. #hepplegin #juniper #distillery #science #nature #balance #wild #botanicals #craft #harvesting #land #northumberland #hepple #local #environment – from Instagram
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22nd April 2020
The catkins on the Bog Myrtle just starting to open up, next we will see the catkins produce a hair like structure before lovely green leaves are produced. Nature goes on even in these testing times. – from Instagram
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21st April 2020
Bodle Moss, high on the hill, last night. This is where the Hepple water comes from, sinking 200 metres through the deepest peat bogs in the Northumberland National Park, a sandstone and then a limestone belt, emerging slightly alkaline in myriad springs at our Juniper line. A reconnaissance to the top was also required because some complete goon started a Bank Holiday fire in the woods over at the far end of Simonside and walked flat footed away. Cue five days of firefighting including guys at Hepple who should be isolating due to various vulnerabilities. The fires are now out, thank goodness although yesterday the winds changed and blew the fire right to our boundary on the hill’s summit. Thanks to the heroism of the guys at @northumberlandfire_rescue as well as the guys from Linhope, all is clear and calm. #cleanwaters – from Instagram
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11th April 2020
Mr Chips has an announcement to make which is that Mrs Chips (not in this video, but seen yesterday) is pregnant, giving further support to the idea of there being something of a baby boom during the Lockdown period. Marvellous news of course, and here is Hepple’s version of the Easter Bunny for you, rubbing his head (and looking) most astonishingly like Keith Flint. Some of us can only hope for ear-tufts like this little Redman, others of us are well on the way already. We hope you have as lovely an Easter as is possible in these funny old times; here’s to our next Martini together!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #redsquirrels #juniper #distillery #science #nature #balance #wild #botanicals #craft #harvesting #land #northumberland #hepple #local #environment #sustainability #green – from Instagram
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20th March 2020
Thinking of all our hospitality friends at this difficult time. Go well and love from the Hepple Spirits team. @hospitalityaction – from Instagram
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15th March 2020
#repost • @nickstrangeway Enjoying my @hepple_spirits Quarantini #quarantini – from Instagram
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