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Shed One Distillery gin, and their other spirits are distilled in Ulverston, Cumbria, in the north-west of England. Known as a festival town for music, comedy, art and more, Ulverston is the birth place of Stan Laurel and there is a museum dedicated to Laurel and Hardy. All Shed One Distillery gins are produced on-site using traditional methods in pot stills. The gins are created using the London Dry process. The botanicals are a mix of traditional, locally grown and foraged.  As well as making gins and spirits under the Shed One Distillery name, Andy and Zoe have created bespoke gins in collaboration with local businesses, Michelin chefs and a Masterchef winner. Shed One Distillery has also won multiple awards both for their spirits and their regenerative sustainability, winning The Gin Guide's Environmental Sustainability for four years in a row. 

Shed One Distillery is a multi award-winning, small-batch distillery based in Ulverston, Cumbria, specialising in artisan gins and other spirits. The distillery was launched in Andy & Zoe’s 7x7 foot garden shed in 2016, before moving to The Old Calf Shed in 2019.
This husband-and-wife team started by creating premium gins, and then added botanical vodkas, liqueurs and pre-mixed premium cocktails to their product lines. Distilling batches of up to 130 bottles, using traditional, locally grown and foraged botanicals and filtered Cumbrian water. Andy and Zoe use the London Dry distilling process ensuring the highest quality with traditional practices.
They also make jelly marmalade made with the fresh zest not needed in spirit production. Sales of which go into their Marmalade Fund and is then donated to their charity partner, Furness Homeless Support.

Shed One Distillery focuses on small-batch production, allowing greater control over flavour and quality. Each gin and spirit recipe is carefully developed by husband and wife team Andy and Zoe Arnold-Bennett. Known for their ability to balance traditional and foraged botanicals creating premium, award-winning spirits.
As well as priding themselves on their high-quality creations, the distillery won The Gin Guide’s Environmental Sustainability Award for four years running, as well as being named Best Community Involvement in the in-Cumbria Business Awards. Reviews from customers of their spirits include “delicious”, “outstanding”, and “a revelation”. Andy and Zoe are also repeatedly praised for their “dedication”, “warm welcome” and mix of “education and entertainment”.

In order to be “gin” the main ingredient has to be juniper. After that you can add all sorts of botanicals.
Shed One Distillery’s Cuckold’s Revenge Gin includes fresh orange and lemon zest, green cardamom and layers of spice. Most of these would be considered traditional botanicals.  However, Shed One Distillery also incorporates locally-grown and foraged botanicals in both their gins and botanical vodkas.
For example, their Quince Botanical Vodka is made with quinces, pears and sage. All of which is grown in the local Ford Park’s walled garden.
Shed One Distillery’s limited edition Ulverston Gin is created with juniper, and then all the other botanicals are foraged within a mile of Shed One. You can see more about how they created Ulverston ’23 on the Channel 5 programme, Cumbria: The Lakes and The Coast. Check it out on My5 catch up.
Because Andy & Zoe only need the fresh zest from the citrus fruit, Zoe then uses all the fresh fruit to make jelly marmalade. Mixing the fruit with juniper and other botanicals. They sell the jars of marmalade and the money goes into their Marmalade Fund which is then donated to their charity partner, Furness Homeless Support.

Shed One Distillery gin can be enjoyed in a variety of ways. Due to using filtered Cumbrian water and the way they are distilled, Shed One gins and vodkas are very smooth. If you would like, they can be served on their own or over ice, as a sipping tipple. If you prefer, have a classic serve of tonic (to taste) and a couple of ice cubes. Use a straight, neutral, tonic with no additional botanicals so as not to clash with the botanicals in the artisan gin. Shed One Distillery have created their own Cumbrian Indian Tonic Water Cordial that you mix with carbonated water.
For gins with spice: Cuckold’s Revenge, Giggle in the Ginnel, Festive Tipple & Chilli Fest, change it up and serve warmed (either in a cup in the microwave or in a pan on the hob). This brings the spice to the fore. A warmed dram of Festive Tipple with a mince pie makes the perfect match. How about warming a shot or two of Chilli Fest and pairing it with a piece of dark chocolate?
You can also incorporate Shed One Distillery gin and vodka in your own cocktails. Cuckold’s Revenge is great in a Negroni, and Shed Loads of Love lends itself to a Spritz.

Not only are Shed One Distillery gins suitable for cocktails, they’ve also created their own premium, pre-mixed cocktails. These are in collaboration with Tom, Ulverston’s premier mixologist and owner of Kindred Spirit Cocktails. The Breakfast Martini Tom made for their launch of Shed One’s move to The Old Calf Shed has been tweaked to a pre-mixed Smokey Martini. Incorporating Shed One Martini Gin (Silver award winner at the World Gin Awards) with their Marmalade Liqueur and Lapsang Souchong Marmalade. The marmalades are made using the surplus citrus fruit not needed in gin distilling. Zoe makes marmalade using juniper and other botanicals. This is sold and the proceeds go to their Marmalade Fund. The money is donated to Furness Homeless Support.
Other pre-mixed cocktails include Quince Bliss and Flat Iron Mint Cola. If you want to learn more about cocktails, you can book you and your friends on to the “Cocktail Class with a Twist” workshop where you also get to create a signature botanical sugar syrup to use in your mixes.

Shed One Distillery was the first distillery in Cumbria to offer Make Your Own Distilled Gin experiences. In 2022 it won Best Experience in the Cumbria Tourism Awards and then Silver at the Visit England Awards in 2023. Andy & Zoe have enhanced this experience since then and also offer Make Your Own Botanical Vodka. In 2025 it won the Best Experience in the Cumbria Tourism Awards. What makes all the experiences special is that Andy & Zoe, the distillers and owners, host every one. They keep groups small, so visitors get a more personal and fulfilling experience.
The distillery tour and tasting begins with a welcome tipple then gives you an insight into the workings of Shed One Distillery, followed by tastings of a further 5 spirits. Then you get to choose your favourite for a second G&T.
Their very popular Afternoon G&Tea combines a welcome G&T and distillery tour with a botanical-inspired afternoon tea served with vintage crockery, cake stands and proper napkins! Zoe bakes everything in the Shed One Distillery kitchen. It’s all gluten-free and vegetarian and has been featured in The Sunday Times. Booking is essential and there can be a waiting list.
Other special experiences include a Cocktail Class with a Twist, where you also get to make your own botanical sugar syrup to be used in your cocktail creations.
The Ultimate Distiller’s Experience is just that. Spending time with Andy and Zoe, over a day and a half, learning about the art of distilling using their 100 litre still.

Yes, all Shed One Distillery gins, spirits, liqueurs and pre-mixed cocktails are produced in small batches. This approach ensures consistency, quality control, and the ability to refine each recipe carefully. The botanicals they use are a mix of traditional, locally-grown and foraged.
Andy and Zoe, the distillers and owners, started with a 25 litre still in their garden shed. When they moved to The Old Calf Shed, they purchased a 100 litre still.
They also designed a closed loop cooling system to save hundreds of thousands of litres of water being wasted. This, among many other sustainable and regenerative initiatives, was a reason why they won The Gin Guide’s Environmental Sustainability Award for four years running. Shed One Distillery has a dedicated web page to report their people-planet business model.
Each Shed One Distillery batch makes about 130 bottles of gin or vodka. When making liqueurs, they generally make batches of about 60. For their pre-mixed cocktails, the batch size averages 40.
They also work with and make bespoke gins for others, including chefs, businesses and community groups.

Shed One Distillery is environmentally friendly, particularly for a small, independent craft distillery. It has received repeated third-party recognition for its sustainability efforts, including multiple environmental awards, including The Gin Guide: Environmental Sustainability Award; Green Tourism; Cumbria Food Awards: Sustainable/Ethical Business; North West Family Business Awards: Equality, Diversity & Inclusion; in-Cumbria Business Award: Best Community Involvement. Shed One Distillery is also certified by Green Small Business and is annually found to be performing above average for their industry sector.
Andy and Zoe have built sustainability into day-to-day operations rather than treating it as a marketing add-on. Its approach focuses on practical impact: reducing waste, improving efficiency, and making responsible choices within the constraints of small-scale spirits production. Shed One Distillery has a web page dedicated to reporting their environmental action plan.
Key actions include using recycled and recyclable packaging; operating a closed-loop cooling system, designed by Andy, that saves hundreds of thousands of litres of water during distillation. So much so, their water bill at the distillery is consistently lower than their home bill! They source botanicals locally or through foraging when feasible. They then compost the used the botanicals.
In addition, Shed One Distillery supports wider climate action through partnerships that fund tree planting and carbon-reduction projects, while maintaining transparency about what it can and cannot control.
Andy and Zoe like to think they fly the flag for micro businesses who rent their building and have no outside, space. Rather than worry about things they can’t do, they think outside of the box and work on the sustainable and regenerative initiatives that are possible. Zoe has joined panels, spoken at conferences and written blogs regarding the distillery and green practices, including reducing their website carbon footprint.
Overall, Andy and Zoe have been described as demonstrating a genuine, thoughtful commitment to minimising environmental impact and continuously improving its practices. They call it their people-planet ethos.

Shed One Distillery gin and other spirits are available directly from the distillery, in person or online. Based in Ulverston, that’s the south of Cumbria, also known as the Lake District peninsula. The website shop includes free standard delivery.
You can find a selection of Shed One Distillery gins and their pre-mixed G&T cans in all the Cumbrian Booths supermarkets. Shed One Distillery is Ulverston Booths closest supplier being about 300 yards away!
Up in the north of Cumbria (North Lake District) on the side of Ullswater, is Chestnut House in Pooley Bridge, Penrith. This is an Aladdin’s cave of gins, vodkas and other spirits and was one of the first shops to stock Shed One Distillery Gin.
In between Ulverston and Penrith, you can find Shed one Distillery Gin in Low Sizergh Barn, Kendal, Basecamp North, The Gather Ennerdale, Bassenthwaite Lake Station, Lakeside & Haverthwaite Station Shop, Tebay Services (Westmorland), Rheged Centre and many more.