The wash and spirit stills have been installed at Eden Mill's new distillery in St Andrews, as the brand prepares to move production to its new site on the University of St Andrews' Eden Campus.
The copper stills were made by LHS in Speyside, designed in collaboration with Eden Mill's head distiller Scott Ferguson. Ferguson made selections — onion-shaped wash still, boil-ball spirit still, and shall-and-tube condenser — intended to produced a "light, floral, and grassy" spirit similar to the style already produced by the brand.
Rennie Donaldson, Eden Mill CEO, said: “Installing our copper stills on-site is a momentous occasion for the brand and the start of a new chapter in Eden Mill’s story. We have come so far as a business, and we’re now just months away from filling our first whisky cask at our new distillery, which is testament to all the hard work the team has put in behind the scenes.”
The distillery plans to open its doors to visitors in summer 2025, when it will offer tours, a shop, and an on-site cocktail bar.
Eden Mill said that the new distillery has "sustainability at its core". The distillery's gin still will be powered using 100 per cent renewable energy, and carbon dioxide produced in fermentation will be captured for repurposing. In 2024, Eden Mill launched a partnership with MiAlgae to recycle its whisky making byproduct effluent into micro-algae, a source of Omega-3.
