Four antique green and aqua apothecary bottles on weathered boards, each holding a single wildflower

Physick Row · Distillers in Beverley

Gin from the
physic garden

Eight bottles distilled in a Victorian chemist’s shop, from botanicals grown forty steps from the still.

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A gin and tonic with lime and a mint sprig on a pale green table
Curls of fresh orange and bergamot peel on a white surface

The shop on Physick Row

A chemist’s counter, turned over to juniper.

For ninety years the shop at number fourteen weighed out tinctures and cough syrups. We kept the mahogany drawers and the brass scales, planted the yard with the same herbs the old pharmacists used, and put a copper still where the dispensary used to be.

Imogen Thewlis, distiller · Ravi Sandhu, gardener

How a bottle is made

From the beds to the bottle

A sprig of juniper in morning sun, its berries ripening from green to dusty blueClay bowls of dried bark, root and petals beside fern and nasturtium flowers on a white tableTall brass-bright pot stills leaning in a row under warm still-house lightClose view of emerald-green moulded glass catching the light
I

Picked at dawn

Juniper, lemon thyme and angelica are cut in the physic beds before the sun reaches them, while the oils are still in the leaf. Ravi weighs every basket on the old dispensing scales.

II

Weighed and steeped

Each botanical is measured to the gram against Imogen’s recipe book, then steeped overnight in English wheat spirit so the gentler flowers give up their scent slowly.

III

Run through copper

The charge goes into our 300-litre copper pot still in the morning. Imogen keeps only the heart of the run — the bright middle — and nothing either side of it.

IV

Into green glass

The gin rests for three weeks, is cut to strength with Yorkshire spring water, and is filled, corked and labelled at the old shop counter on Physick Row.

Three bottles to begin with

All eight bottles →
Clear corked apothecary bottles of different shapes on a white mantelpiece beside trailing eucalyptus

London dry gin · 42% · 70cl

No. 1 Physick Garden Gin

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A green glass bottle holding one red rose on a sunlit windowsill

Floral gin · 40% · 70cl

Rose & Angelica Gin

£39In stock
A tall clear bottle with a natural cork stopper against a pale grey wall

Navy strength gin · 57% · 70cl

Navy Strength Tincture

£46Only 4 bottles left

The flavour wheel

Tell us what you like in a glass.

Pick a flavour family on the wheel and we hand back the bottle, the tonic, the garnish and the glass.

Juniper & pine
Citrus
Floral
Herbal
Spice
Root & earth
Orchard fruit
Liquorice & sweet

Serve No. 1 · Juniper & pine

No. 1 Physick Garden Gin

The house serve: piney, bright and very dry. Squeeze the peel over the glass before it goes in.

Tonic
A dry Indian tonic, light on quinine
Garnish
Grapefruit peel and three juniper berries
Glass
Tall highball, packed with ice
Ratio
1 part gin to 3 of tonic
See the bottle →
A hand setting down a pale green vermouth and tonic with mint by a bright window

“We came for the tour and went home with the Rose. It tastes the way the garden smelled that afternoon — I didn’t know a gin could do that.”

Harriet Okafor · came for a Saturday tasting from Driffield

A brick-based Victorian glasshouse with arched windows, half hidden by green leaves

Sending a bottle as a present

We write your message on the label, in ink.

Add a note at checkout and Imogen pens it onto the back label before the bottle is wrapped in paper and straw. No charge, and no printed gift card in sight.

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