Samantha Smith is the owner of Niche Alcohol Supplies. Falling in Love with the GIN EVA range of gins from the Mediterranean island of Majorca is what bought us into the industry. What an experience and we just love the industry and all the amazing people. The passion and infectious creativity Read more…
Jaye Iwanowski is the Director of Identity Drinks Brands Ltd. Those in her network, are familiar with my infectious passion and enthusiasm for working in the spirits industry. A few decades in, she has successfully driven the brand equity of products such as Plantation rum, Crystal Head vodka and Funkin, she possesses an irrefutable network Read more…
Kathy Caton is Co-Founder of Brighton’s first (legal!) distillery, bringing the multiple award-winning Brighton Gin to the city and beyond. Brighton obsessive with a passion for good food, drink, arts and culture. When not making gin, she can be found broadcasting and podcasting – currently live on BBC Radio Sussex Read more…
Scott Allen of Allen Associates is a Chemical Engineer and MD. Allen Associates provides Chemical & Process Engineering Design, Whisky Distilling Solutions, Bespoke System Design, Project Implementation Support and Process Safety Compliance.
Richard Foster is the Founder of Exploring English Whisky, a community of whisky adventurers supporting and exploring the English Whisky scene that offers membership packages and run the English Whisky Festival, heading to Birmingham for the 19th November 2022.
Millie Milliken is an award-winning drinks and hospitality journalist. She is a freelance drinks writer as well as Community Manager for drinks-industry charity, The Drinks Trust and is 2022 IWSC Spirits Communicator of the Year. Previously, she was deputy editor at Imbibe UK and associate editor at SquareMeal. She also Read more…
Alex James is the Founder of London to Lima Spirits, a distillery based in the Lima Province of Peru. Pure Andean Spring water, Peruvian botanicals and Pisco are the keys to this Gin and it is handcrafted from Grape to Glass. Before founding London to Lima some eight years, he Read more…
Steph DiCamillo is the founder of Cocktails By Mail and Wine & Such. She is an experienced Advocacy Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the wine and spirits industry. She is skilled in drinks strategy, educational tool creation, activation development, and consumer messaging, with the ability to focus Read more…
Dimple Athavia is the Founder of All Things Drinks, an online platform selling a curated collection of spirits, wines and drinks related products. She has an extensive knowledge in consumer trends, and is educated in Viticulture and Oenology and WSET Diploma level wines of the world education, with International Retail Read more…
Sarah Miller is a spirits writer and judge. She founded Gin a Ding Ding around 5 years ago and has built a solid following with through her extensive reviews. Founding of Gin a Day May, she wanted to spread a bit of joy and positivity and that has grown into a lovely Read more…
Rachel Sutherland is Liquid and Innovation Manager at Warner’s Distillery. With a keen interest in science, Rachel is a self confessed spirits geek and loves conducting experiments to gain a deeper understanding of spirit production process. She has spoken for the Craft Distilling Expo on a number of occasions and Read more…
Matthew Pauley is a Assistant Professor in Distilling at ICBD Heriot Watt and Distillery Consultant. He is carrying out research funded by the Gin Guild. It is part of industry leading work concerning the sensory performance of gin in association with the Scotch Whisky Research Institute. By using techniques usually Read more…
Emma Stokes, otherwise known as Gin Monkey, is one of the UK’s longest running gin and cocktail bloggers with over ten years experience in the industry. Founder of World Gin Day, her extensive work has recently been recognised by Gin Magazine, who awarded her a Gin Icon Award.
Bernadette Pamplin is a spirits writer, judge and consultant. She set up her blog www.undertheginfluence.com in 2015 and has since developed a real passion for spirits, judging for various awards such as World Gin Awards, IWSC, the Spirits Masters and the ADI’s International Spirits Competition in San Francisco. She writes regular articles for Gin Read more…
Avian Sandercock is head distiller, bottle washer and floor mopper at The Wrecking Coast Distillery – making gin and fruit liqueurs in North Cornwall for 6 years now and branching out into ageing spirits. Always happy to share his experience of running a small distillery, good and bad and helping other small distillers Read more…
Anicca O’Noins and her husband are the team behind Thunderflower Gin, based in Devon. Having set up their own nano distillery in 2017, and launched their gin in 2018, Anicca has fresh insight into the process of setting up a distillery. Having a nano-distillery means she can offer great advice to Read more…
Alice Pearson leads New Product Development for the Cotswolds Distillery, Creating and overseeing production for a range of spirits including traditional and flavoured gins, liqueurs and bitters. Alice has been making quite a name for herself in recent years, developing a number of award winning products and winning the IWSC Emerging Read more…
Alex Wolpert is the Founder of the East London Liquor Company. He spoke on our Capital Distilling panel to discuss the pros and cons of distilling in the city.
