Take a closer look at Ad Gefrin whisky distillery

Express & Star

Set in the Northumberland countryside, Ad Gefrin is a tribute to the spirit of the Angle Saxon communities which lived and worked in the area.  Now, as a modern distillery, it uses the resources of the local area to create a unique whisky.  Express & Star senior reporter James Vukmirovic took a trip there to find out more.

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00:00So yes, so we work with five farmers who grow all of our malting garden for us within 25

00:23miles of the facility and they work with Simpsons Malt who are one of the oldest malts in the

00:28country and are only 10 miles away of Berwick on Tweed and they malt that garden for us

00:35and then bring it down to us.

00:36So we have one of the smallest carbon footprints of any of the English distilleries, everything

00:41is, has done a maximum journey of 30 miles so from farm to maltster and back to us.

00:47And you were describing the two different malts as well?

00:49Yes, so we generally make our unpeated malt for about 10 months of the year which is this

00:56malting garden here and then for the last month of the year we, production run, we make

01:01the peated whisky, peated single malt, and this is our peated barley, again all grown

01:07from the same sets of farmers and peated for us by Simpsons in Berwick.

01:13And then this, as we go through the process, the malting barley is delivered, it goes into

01:18the hopper at the back, it goes through the grist mill up here and it's milled then into

01:24this, this sort of porridge, porridge barley really, that then goes into the mashtray.

01:33Yeah, please.

01:40So yeah, so this is, we have our founders members, as you can see, I'll show you over there.

01:55So this is an immersive background for the alchemist to take you through the tour.

02:07So it is taking you through the four seasons of the year, dawn, midday and dusk, in the

02:18Northumbrian landscape, so it's changing painterly scenes of the uplands of Northumberland.

02:26Accompanied by music from Catherine Tickell, who is a Northumbrian folk artist, folk musician, sorry.

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