Book Keeper - Part Time

Callander, Perthshire Permanent, part-time Car & Driving License is essential £10.00 - £12.00 per hour

 

Trossachs Distillery Limited – home of McQueen Gin is recruiting a part time Book Keeper to join them as soon as possible. This will initially be for up to 4 hours x 5 days per week, though may increase to 6 hours x 5 days as the business is expanding rapidly. Hours can be flexible.

 

Key tasks will involve:

Purchase Ledger and invoice approval for price and quantity Credit card and cash reconciliation Bank Reconciliation Supplier payments Month end prep to P&L and Balance Sheet processing and Reconciliation Some Sales Ledger Additional duties as required to support a small growing business

 

You will need to have a commercial head and be able to put in effective and efficient processes into place, rather than working with what may already be used, so you will need to be confident, structured and organised.

Ideal candidates will be qualified to AAT level 3.

 

Whilst we endeavour to respond to all applicants who apply to our vacancies, in certain instances this is not always possible. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 5 working days of your application, please assume that on this occasion you have not been successful. We will retain your details on file and advise should alternative opportunities arise.

Required skills

Credit Ledger Payments Purchase Ledger Reconciliation

 

Interested applicants should email their CV for the attention of Dale McQueen to [email protected]

 

Closing date 30th August 2016. Start date mid September 2016

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Yesterday saw a meeting of Scottish Craft Gin Distillers and the Scottish Craft Distillers Association - a new organisation formed to encourage the growth of craft distilling in Scotland by assisting the development of member companies. This includes , Beer, Vodka, Whisky, Rum and now Gin. McQueen Gin was issued one of the first certification labels for craft Gin and it will be placed on every bottle leaving the distillery from today. A very proud moment for the team.

If you want to know more about the organisation and how to become a member here is a link to their website. http://www.scottishcraftdistillers.co.uk

 

McQueen Gin Sporting the new Craft Distillers Certification Label

A close up of the new certification label.

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Yesterday - 28th July 2016, was the first year anniversary of the Trossachs Distillery Limited - home of McQueen Gin - registering as a company. Dale and Vicky McQueen, took the opportunity to celebrate at one of Callander’s best restaurants - The Callander Meadows, run by Nick and Suzanne Park - who by the way stock McQueen Gin behind the bar.

 

Nick, Dale, Vicky & Suzanne enjoying after dinner Gin & Tonics

So how did we get here in 11 months? Here are some key dates and images from the last 12 months.

19 July 2015 – decision to bring forward the project start date

20 July 2015 – Dale called his boss – not coming back

28 July 2015 – Registered Trossachs Distillery Limited

Late August – Ordered Still

3 June 2016 – Product Launch

 

Work starts on creating a new entrance with snow outside

The barn during conversion

Everything installed and the still is in Gin production.

The custom still in transit from Germany

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A couple of local gin tasting events coming up:-

16th/17th July 12- 1pm - The Woodhouse in Kippen, a wonderful farm shop and restaurant (brilliant breakfast) on the A811 on the outskirts of Kippen. Dale McQueen will be there serving up some of the gin and giving you some information about how we distill and produce our flavoured gin.

Friday 29th July 7:30pm - Behind The Wall pub and restaurant in Falkirk. Serving up McQueen Gin with a scrumptious supper for £25 - tickets are available from http://www.behindthewall.co.uk/events

Sunday 31st - Callander Highland Games - Traditional Highlands Games event - but we will be there with samples to try and gin to buy - see you there.

 

 

 

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It’s been just over 3.5 weeks since we launched and things are moving fast. We have a number new stockist and distributors, with more coming online every day. The word is getting round how fantastic our Gin is, with some very encouraging National Press mentions.

With two major events under our belt, we are ready for the next flurry of activity, the Callander Highland Games at the end of July and Stirling Highland Games in the middle of August. To help us, we have a new face in the team, Seb from France, he is joining us for 8 weeks to learn about Gin distillation, his family have a large vineyard in France that produces wine and supplies grapes for local Cognac producers. Seb is interested in producing a French Gin.

Last week saw McQueen Gin pick up a cheque for £10,000 from the Scottish Edge Wildcard Award. This award is for new entrepreneurs launching new and innovative products into the Scottish market, the award is designed to help with start up costs etc, in our case the money will be used to help fund a Graduate to work with us over the next year to learn the business and help us grow.

Vicky & Dale McQueen receiving their Scottish Edge Wildcard Trophy and Cheque. June 2016

Watch out for the next blog post when we spill the beans on the infamous green cocktail invented by the original Mrs McQueen senior, whilst living in America.

 

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Earlier in May we had the opportunity to send David T. Smith of Summer Fruit Cup, four samples of McQueen Gin. Here is an exert of the full blog -

Cocktails with… McQueen Gins Posted on May 30, 2016 by DTS

McQueen Gin is made at the Trossachs Distillery in Callander, Scotland and is made using locally-sourced juniper. McQueen have really embraced the idea of the Signature Botanical Gin; that is a gin flavoured purely through distillation (aka London Gin) that has a signature botanical or flavour. This kind of gin has been on the rise in the last year or so; McQueen are spot-on-trend with their new range of four gins.

The flavours of their signature gins will rotate, depending on seasonality and popularity, and supporters of McQueen will get to have their say, too. So far, most other Signature Botanical Gins have been confined to flavours of a single botanical, but McQueen have taken it a step further with this selection…

Read the full story and David’s tasting notes on each of our four flavours - link to the full story.

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Hi Dale

Thanks for the samples! Total fun, we’ve been playing with them this morning. They’re great and totally unique which is a hard thing to do now in the gin market place.

As promised a fully blind approach to them!

Sweet citrus - Has Mediterranean vibes for me. My thoughts would be naturally sits very well with Fever-Tree Med or 1724 garnished with orange or grapefruit. Simple tasty and I suspect will end up being the biggest seller.

Smokey Chilli - I was expecting a massive overload of flavour and in-fact it’s far more balanced and unique than i expect so top work! It has the bite of chilli and spice at the end so i’d be tempted to try going down the ginger ale route with fresh chilli or ginger to make something very fun and unique.

Mocha - I’m a coffee and chocolate fan so it was always going to be a guilty pleasure. It’s screaming gin based Espresso martini for me! Class gin + mixer wise more of a challenge. Coffee beans as a garnish but i’m tempted to say just regular Fever-Tree or similar to allow the natural flavours to shine though. Big fan!

Chocolate mint - For me the most bizarre and difficult one as it’s got loads going on. G&T with classic tonic (possibly Fentimans 19:05 herbal would be fun!) sprig of mint is natural with it and sweet citrus seems to complement this well. It’s the one I think is the most mad and fun for people to look at and will also appeal to non-gin drinkers.

All in all a very very unique set which is great.

Have a great weekend and thanks again for the samples.

James

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We have the opportunity to give away 2 x 2 tickets to the Juniper Festival - June 10th to 12th 2016 at Summerhall in Edinburgh. World Gin Day falls on the 11th of June, so a visit to sample over 30 gins for free sounds very appealing. You can use the tickets to visit the Festival on any one of the days for you and a friend, or you could hang on to both tickets and visit twice. The competition closes midnight on 31st May 2016.

There are 2 chances to be a winner -

Via Facebook - find our page McQueen Gin and like. Then find the competition post and like, share and comment below why you want to win the tickets x 2.

Another chance is via our Twitter page. Follow us, retweet the competition and reply to @mcqueengin with a comment on why you would like to win the other 2 tickets including the #mcqueengincomp.

Competition rules

The competition is open to anyone resident in the UK and over the age of 18. The venue may ask for proof of age on the day of attending. McQueen Gin and Trossachs Distillery Ltd accept no responsibility for the winner being refused entry.

Tickets will be dispatched shortly after the 1st of June. The judges decision is final.

Facebook rules -

To be eligible you must adhere to the rules above.

Please note this promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.

Twitter rules -

Anyone found to use multiple accounts to enter will be ineligible.

Posting duplicate, or near duplicate, updates or links is a violation of the Twitter Rules and jeopardizes search quality. Multiple entries in a single day will not be accepted.

Please note this promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Twitter.

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Exciting times at McQueen Gin, the website has gone live and we are taking prelaunch orders - from the UK only at the moment. Shipment will be via courier from the 6th of June.

We officially launch on the 3rd of June 2016 with a wee private soiree for all the people and organisations that have helped us on this journey.

On the 4th of June, there will be a public tasting and launch at St. Kessogs Church (The home of the Clanranald Trust Scotland) in Ancaster Square, Callander. Drop in and meet Dale and Vicky, get a taste of the four flavours of McQueen Gin and be one of the first to own a bottle of craft gin made in Callander. We will there from 12 - 5pm, no booking necessary.

(id may be requested if you are lucky to look under the age of 25.)

Hope to see you all there for a busy launch.

Details of launch on Eventbrite:- McQueen Gin Public Tasting

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