Bristol Dry Gin, made by the Bristol Spirits Collective in Bristol, has won a top award at the World Gin Awards yesterday, 25th February. The company’s Classic 40% Gin was named was named the Best English Classic Gin and awarded the gold medal in an announcement made through social media due to Covid 19 restrictions.
Deliveries within the city centre are performed on foot, or by electric bike, and further out we use couriers with progressive environmental policies and systems. We currently still have some need for traditional transport, fur bulk deliveries and festivals, but we are aiming to reduce this need as technology and costs allow.
All of our staff and employees are encouraged to use environmentally friendly forms of transport to and from the distillery, and we have achieved near complete success on this front.
We have invested heavily in the latest technology, to reduce our reliance on energy. After conducting an audit of our processes and making each part of our building as efficient as possible, the next step was to start generating our own electricity. Though cities, and listed buildings in particular, are notoriously difficult to use for generation, we managed to find a way to install a large Photovoltaic System, that now reduces our need for energy from the grid.
We have been running a deposit return scheme with our trade accounts for a number of years, which has proved very successful in both reducing the amount of waste, and associated waste costs, for venues, and decreasing our need for newly manufactured bottles. As the scheme has been so successful we have now expanded it to include all of our customers. Like the good old days, anyone can return a bottle to the distillery for a cash rewards.
