Learn the Art of Distilling and Create your Own Gin for Two
Overview
Discover the art of distilling and create your own uber-small batch gin in a stunning loch-side location in the Scottish Highlands. Starting in style with a gin and tonic, immerse yourselves in the world of gin as you tour the distillery, and learn all about development, distilling, bottling and labelling from the experts.
Within the grounds of an award-winning hotel and restaurant, Pixel Spirits Distillery and Gin School puts authenticity at its fore. The Gin School sits within the historic former byre of the distillery, and is equipped with traditional Portuguese copper pot mini stills. You’ll have over one hundred botanicals to choose from to create your own bespoke gin, with plenty of tips on how to blend them together to create a totally unique recipe. You’ll finish with a 70cl bottle of your delicious new creation to take away, complete with a personalised label – it’s guaranteed to be a talking point for any home.
- SKU
- PPSLG2
- Locations
- 1 in the UK
- People
- For 2
- Validity
- 12 Months
- Rating
- 4.9 (20)
What's Included
- 4 hour experience at the Pixel Spirits Distillery and Gin School for two
- Gin and Tonic each on arrival
- Tour the distillery
- Create your own bespoke gin with botanicals of your choice
- Learn how to distill, bottle and label
- Finish with a 70cl bottle of hand-crafted, bespoke gin with a personalised label to share at home
- Experience gift pack including personalised voucher and message card
What happens on the day?
On arrival at Pixel Spirits Distillery and Gin School, you’ll be welcomed with a delicious gin and tonic to get you in the mood for some serious gin discovery. Your first port of call will be the distillery, where you can check out how it’s done, before learning about recipe development, bottling and labelling.
When it comes to making your own gin, you’ll have over one hundred botanicals to choose from, plus plenty of guidance should you need a helping hand with the traditional copper pot mini stills. By the end of the lesson, you’ll have your 70cl bottle of bespoke hand-crafted gin, complete with a personalised label on the front, to take away with you.
Participant guidelines
- Minimum age: 18
- The venue is not a wheelchair friendly space. Due to the hot stills and hot liquids the experience is not recommended for people with serious disabilities
- The maximum number of participants is 8
- The experience content, equipment used and restrictions may vary
Availability
The experience is available Monday to Saturday throughout the year. Excluded dates include special holidays such as Christmas Day.
We recommend you book at least four weeks in advance to ensure that dates are available. All bookings are subject to availability.
Please allow 4 hours for the full experience. Sessions start at 12.00.
What about insurance?
The centres contracted with us hold public liability insurance. We also hold contingency liability cover. You will not be liable for accidental damage to equipment, except where damage has been caused as a result of recklessness or wilful negligence.
Please ensure you are familiar with the terms and conditions of the experience.
How it works
Customer Reviews
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Craig Innes
22/12/2021
Pixel Spirits
Craig was very informative and explained all about gin ,would certainly go again .
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Alastair
05/10/2020
Pixel Gin experience is not to be missed
This is such a great experience. It is great to hear the families story of how they got involved in the hotel and why they decided to specialise in making their own gin. The story of how they make their gin and their future plans is brilliant and to top it all off you learn how to make your own gin and you get taking away the fruits of your labour. Their own gin 'The Devils Staircase' is not to be missed
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Lindsey
12/11/2019
Gin distilling with Pixel spirits
We had a brilliant time. So interesting and informative. I would go back and use the voucher whilst staying at the loch leven hotel to get the full experience. The finished product is brilliant and great value for money.
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Alistair
05/11/2019
Gin Experience
This was very informative but also kept light and we were made welcome and it was all friendly , would definitely recommend this to others
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Kat
23/09/2019
Great fun and incredibly interesting
We had a wonderful time at Pixel Gin. Craig was so knowledgeable (as well as friendly and funny!) and it was fascinating finding out all about the art of gin distilling and seeing their set up. The "school room" itself was very well put together and it was exciting getting to experiment with ingredients and have a go on a gin still. Fantastic experience, highly recommended.
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Gil
12/08/2019
Interesting, fun and booze!
We were really impressed by this! Fantastic host & location. I can’t believe we picked a bespoke set of ingredients (from about 100!), distilled the gin, created the strength we wanted, bottled, labelled & wax-sealed it! Really beat expectations. Host answered every question we had with patience & humour. Location was also beautiful and it’s part of a lovely hotel for food (and extra gin!)
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Cathy
28/07/2019
Great experience and well worth the trip.
Great experience and well worth the trip. Really enjoyed picking our own botanicals and making the gin. Even working out how strong to make it was fun.
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Nancy & Rachael
30/06/2019
Great experience & good fun
Had a really interesting & fun time making my own unique bottle of gin. Great place, really interesting & you come away with something just for you. Highly recommend
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Cheryl
12/06/2019
There’s more to gin than meets the eye
A most informative and fun time spent learning about, and sampling gin in a lovely Scottish location.
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Steph
09/04/2019
An Amazing Experience!
A superb Day at the Gin Making Experience. The tour started with a G and T in the bar and a tour of the distillery. Was super interesting to see and hear the story before we went to the Gin School. We were given free reign to choose our own botanicals and craig was very informative and helpful. We were then talked through the process step by step and craig was so patient and explained everything. Before we saw our gin being made and we had the chance to bottle, label and seal it. Superb!
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Fiona Finlayson
02/04/2019
Can’t wait to taste my gin
Had a brilliant time at the gin experience - highly recommend this day
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Roddy
02/04/2019
Gin School at loch Leven hotel
My wife and I had a great time learning how to make Gin and making our own bottle to take away. I would recommend this experience as it was a great way to find out how gin is made in a light hearted way.
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Paolina
26/03/2019
Very informative and fun gin making experience!
The course was lovely, we learnt a lot about gin making, the owner (and teacher) walked us through the steps of how did they succeed in opening a distillery and showed us all there is to it! And we got to experience making our own gin blend ourselves which was the greatest part of it all - plenty of botanicals to choose from - really anything you can think of, so the sky is the limit! Great day - highlight of our short holiday in the Highlands!
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Susie & Pgil
24/03/2019
Fab Day!
Interesting informative & great fun!
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pauline
11/03/2019
was a great day
Gin making day was great really enjoyed it would recommend it for all gin lovers.
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Ciaran
18/02/2019
Brilliant fun, would recommend to a Friend!
Fantastic experience, had so much fun would definitely recommend to anyone!!
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Sheila
22/10/2018
Informative and fun
A fun and interesting afternoon with a bottle of gin at the end. Spent the night at the hotel and had a lovely meal.
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Vicky and Paul H
15/09/2018
Great day out
Loved the Gin experience right from the start. Such a unique experience and a very good and knowledgeable host who made the experience good fun and interesting.
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Anon
26/07/2019
Gin! Gin! Gin!
A fun and informative afternoon, learning about the distillation of gin, and the combining of ingredients to create something interesting and flavoursome. The 4-hour time slot passed really quickly. The fact that there was only one other mini-still 'occupied' meant that we got more contact time with the distillery tutor. We have still to sample the created spirit...!
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c &K
17/06/2019
Interesting experience
We enjoyed a nice afternoon , welcomed by our informative host with a gin made on site. We enjoyed the informal atmosphere and experience choosing out botanicals , distilling our own batch and taking it home with us. It was certainly a different experience. Would recommend.
Locations
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Scotland
- Fort William, Scotland