First up is BrewDog vodka and the company has removed a section of its brewhouse roof and installed a 19m high 60-plate rectification column, to get the “purest, cleanest spirit possible” it said in its latest blog update.

They explained: “This will then form the basis of our vodka and gins, and where others buy in neutral spirit in bulk, we will distil everything from scratch.

“The head of our distillation team Steven Kersley is now dialling in our gin recipe using the 50 litre pilot still, with over 30 different botanicals for trial, building up the flavour complexity until the blend and ratios are perfect.”

According to BrewDog, installation is happening presently and they hope to produce the first batches of their spirit at the start of next month (April).

They added: “We don’t want to rest on the laurels of a location, like so many within the industry. Flexibility is vitally important to us, and the Lone Wolf distillery will have experimentation at its heart.

“With the pilot still we can produce a huge range of potential spirits, and with our epic barrel store we can age and then blend the results to allow a fascinating range of flavours to develop.

“We want to stretch the boundaries of what a distillery can do – and what a distillery should do. 

“Starting with our own all-grain distilled vodka, through our bespoke gins and whiskies and a range of other spirits besides – we can’t wait to make this natural progression for BrewDog and make as big an impact on the spirits industry as we did on the beer industry.”