McQueen Dry Gin will be available to preorder from 28th October, with shipment shortly after launch.

Finally, just a quick round up of where you can find us next:

16/10 - Loch Lomond Shore farmers Market
29/10 - Food Pairing with McQueen Gin & Callander Meadows restaurant
4&5/11 - Stirling Gin festival (yes with the new Gin)
11-13/11 - BBC Food Show Olympia, London
19-20/11 - Scotlands Outdoor Chocolate festival, Perth
25-27/11 - Foodies Festival, Edinburgh
3/12 - Santa Naughty Gin grotto, Callander
10/12 - Artisan Market - Perth

Details of all these events can be found on our website or our Facebook page.

Until we meet again, which I hope is soon.

Slánte

The Team at Trossachs Distillery

It’s just over a month since we launched in Callander on the 3rd of June, we have been so frantically busy that it could have been a year ago. Thank you to everyone for your support and encouragement - we love hearing from you and seeing your pictures of you enjoying our gin.

The Juniper Festival in Edinburgh was a resounding success with lots of interest being generated - including getting 2 mentions in The Scotsman food & drink section - and listed as 1 of the top 5 new Scottish Gins. We have also been featured on the latest Gin Map of Scotland created by http://blog.5pm.co.uk/2016/06/love-scottish-gin-need-see-new-gin-map-scotland/

Dale and Vicky were at the Scottish Edge awards in June picking up our wild card trophy and cash prize. This award will be used to employ a young person to learn the distilling process and work with us for at least a year.

Dale & Vicky Mcqueen receiving their Wild Card EDGE Award from Chris van der Kuyl

Our distribution list is growing daily with just about all our local outlets in Callander selling our Gin and specialist shops within the Central belt stocking up daily. A good number of pubs, restaurants and hotels have us behind the bar as well. We are in discussions with a number of national distributors and we are in 2 of the Marriott Hotels already. Online sales are growing steadily too, with new customers from Inverness to London.

This week we are launching our long awaited multi pack of 4 x 100ml bottles of each flavour - that’s 2 doubles of each one.

The 4 pack retails at £24.99 from our website but will also be available via our stockist, so keep checking the website for one near you - http://www.mcqueengin.co.uk/stockists

To celebrate the Trossachs Distillery - home of McQueen Gin - turning 1 year old this month, we are giving 15% off a 50cl bottle of your favourite flavour, with every purchase of the 4 pack in July. Offer ends August 2016. To qualify for the discount - order the 4 pack direct from us, before the end of July and we will send you a money off code to use with your next on-line purchase. (offer will also apply to anyone who has already purchased the four pack - we will email out the code shortly).

A quick up date on some of the major events we will be at this year -

We are also doing a number of tastings, as are some of our stockists. Keep an eye on our website or our social media for details of when and where and hope to see you there for a chat.

We have had a fantastic launch weekend on the 3rd of June in Callander. The sun was out, the town was busy and we had queues out the door waiting to sample the latest addition to the Scottish Craft Gin market. We want to say a massive thank you to Clanranald Charity for the use of their Church, to Deli Ecosse for providing nibbles, Thistle Rose Candles and to Dawn, Aimee, Lorraine, Bas, Carrie, Holly, Natalie, Matt and Alex for their help during the launch.

Mr & Mrs McQueen - the team behind McQueen Gin

We have posted a number of pictures on to our Facebook page, if you see yourself - why don’t you tag and share - for fun.

June has started with us hitting the ground running, with a number of local shops, pubs, restaurants and distributors placing orders to stock our fantastic Gin (we will keep you up to date with stockists on the website). The press has been lively with a feature article in Park Life - based in the National Park and a feature in the Gin Wag newsletter from Chrissy and Simon at Gin Club Scotland. We have had some fantastic reviews from 56 North Edinburgh and David T. Smith at Summerfruitcup - http://www.mcqueengin.co.uk/blog

At McQueen Gin HQ we have been gearing up for our first major Gin Festival in Edinburgh - the Juniper Festival 10th -12th June.

We are also now in the Ginventory app available from the Apps store for Apple and Android, and we have been included in the latest Gin Map of Scotland -http://blog.5pm.co.uk/2016/06/love-scottish-gin-need-see-new-gin-map-scotland/

The second batch of all 4 flavours is already in production to meet exceptional demand, with batches of only 300 bottles of each flavour, it will be distributed one a first come basis. Remember we can sell direct to you via the website or come and visit us at the Distillery - just give us a call first to make sure we are about.

We have a number of public appearances in the pipeline over the next few months:-

If you have an event that you think we should be at, contact [email protected]

Finally - it appears that the McQueen’s have a wee bit of a story about Gin, Dales’ mother lived in America and was a barmaid for a period of time, during which she entered a competition with a Gin cocktail at the world famous Pat O’Brien’s in New Orleans (Vicky & Dale have also frequented since). We are waiting on some ingredients to arrive and will provide that recipe in our next newsletter.

Sláinte
Dale McQueen
Trossachs Distillery limited