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Purple Reign - Fruit Cake
INGREDIENTS 200ml hot, strong tea 3 tbsp Purple Rye Whisky 3 tbsp good-quality orange marmalade 700g mixed dried fruit 100g mixed peel 100g glacé cherry 225g butter 225g golden caster...
Purple Reign - Fruit Cake
INGREDIENTS 200ml hot, strong tea 3 tbsp Purple Rye Whisky 3 tbsp good-quality orange marmalade 700g mixed dried fruit 100g mixed peel 100g glacé cherry 225g butter 225g golden caster...

Our Fields Through the Seasons
January may seem like a quiet month, but our farm fields are busy preparing the raw materials for a fresh batch of spirits. Let’s walk through a year in the...
Our Fields Through the Seasons
January may seem like a quiet month, but our farm fields are busy preparing the raw materials for a fresh batch of spirits. Let’s walk through a year in the...

Meeting brilliant people: Louise Brockman
Louise Brockman produces beautifully sumptuous marbled papers for bookbinders and other lucky recipients including, for the first time, us. This festive season we have worked closely with Louise to create...
Meeting brilliant people: Louise Brockman
Louise Brockman produces beautifully sumptuous marbled papers for bookbinders and other lucky recipients including, for the first time, us. This festive season we have worked closely with Louise to create...

Time out with our head of whisky
We have so many wonderful things that make us special as a distillery, from our genetically diverse heritage grain to our pioneering, carbon footprint-conscious approach to farming. But one of...
Time out with our head of whisky
We have so many wonderful things that make us special as a distillery, from our genetically diverse heritage grain to our pioneering, carbon footprint-conscious approach to farming. But one of...

Great Taste Awards
Here at The Oxford Artisan Distillery, we have always prided ourselves on being (although small) hugely ambitious when it comes to our spirits. Over the past half decade since we...
Great Taste Awards
Here at The Oxford Artisan Distillery, we have always prided ourselves on being (although small) hugely ambitious when it comes to our spirits. Over the past half decade since we...

The Big Oxford Beer Bash
he arrival of September can mean a lot of things; the children heading back to school, the transition back into shorter days, the arrival of Negroni week (watch this space)....
The Big Oxford Beer Bash
he arrival of September can mean a lot of things; the children heading back to school, the transition back into shorter days, the arrival of Negroni week (watch this space)....

Botanicals you can grow at home
A prevailing ambition we hear from our guests is that they wish to become a distiller and be able to produce all these creative, alcoholic concoctions at home. We consider...
Botanicals you can grow at home
A prevailing ambition we hear from our guests is that they wish to become a distiller and be able to produce all these creative, alcoholic concoctions at home. We consider...

A Short History of Absinthe
“A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?” Oscar Wilde Absinthe is one of...
A Short History of Absinthe
“A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?” Oscar Wilde Absinthe is one of...

An evening at Milroy’s
Last Thursday we spent an excellent evening at Milroy’s of Spitalfields surrounded by bottles of Oxford Rye Whisky, tasting glasses and like-minded whisky geeks. Our Head of Grain John Letts and...
An evening at Milroy’s
Last Thursday we spent an excellent evening at Milroy’s of Spitalfields surrounded by bottles of Oxford Rye Whisky, tasting glasses and like-minded whisky geeks. Our Head of Grain John Letts and...