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Our brand is known across the world and has at some time been sold in far off reaches such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Canada & the USA. With over 2,500,000 bottes of our Original sold we have a strong following.
Based on the tidal island of Lindisfarne 1 mile into the North Sea and linked to England by a causeway the Island regularly receives over half a million visitors each year, many of whom visit our shop.
We sell a huge range of products. A variety of traditional meads (our Original, Spiced, Dark and Pink) along with a range of fruit wines and spirit drinks such as our Toffee vodka & Wild Strawberry-all produced and bottled at our winery on this Holy Island.
These are available for tasting at our tasting bar.
Enjoy our unique Lindisfarne Gin produced by our sister company The Alnwick Rum & Spirts Company which includes in it Meadowsweet that can be found growing on the island and our new Viking range of drinks.
Our craft shop holds probably the widest range of local artefacts that can be found in one location in the region and is highly popular with all the tourists visiting.
We are open 360 days of the year; just check the tide times before coming to see us.
Founded in 1914, The Alnwick Rum & Spirits Company has grown to become one of the country’s acclaimed niche rum companies. Starting off as a one product business with its uniquely blended “Legendary Dark Rum”, a favourite amongst sailors and fisherman in the Northeast, after being acquired by the Harry Hotspur Holdings group in 2013, the business started to expand into new levels.
Now the proud owner of a full range of rums and liqueurs, Alnwick Rum consists of the original ‘Legendary’ dark rum supported by the exotic ‘Golden Spiced’ and a smoothly blended white sipping rum ‘White Knight’.
As well as this, Alnwick Rum now produces the Holy Island Rum range consisting of the majorly popular and award worthy Holy Island Spiced Rum.
In 2018 the business resurrected its 1950’s Glen Aln Whisky, a blend of fine scotch malt and grain whiskies and in 2021 released the now in-demand Lindisfarne Gin in line with our vision to expand across the full gin market which now also includes our Lindisfarne Pink, Sloe and Damson and new in 2024 our Rhubarb gin.
In addition to these we have recently launched a great line in flavoured rums proving to be much sort after. These include our Amaretto Almond, Coffee & Cocoa and Pineapple & Coconut.
We are now the holders of Great Taste Awards for 3 of our top lines, namely our Honey Rum, Holy Island Spiced Rum and our Percy Special that we proudly sell at Alnwick Castle home of the Percy family.
All these fantastic products can be seen proudly displayed in our own retail outlet; A Taste of Northumbria, the home of Alnwick Rum, located in Alnwick Market place. This outlet has quickly become a go-to location for tourists visiting the historical town. We are proud to have such an iconic historical figure head in Sir Henry Percy as the focus point around our new sophisticated branding. Famously he was known as ‘Harry Hotspur’ and Northumberland’s most lionhearted warrior whose family lived in Alnwick Castle.
With the business never slowing down there are always lots of exciting opportunities and adventures in the pipeline including global exports, moving into and expanding our new wholesale business, more new products and its branded series of nightclub events. Be sure to look out for Alnwick Rum in a bar, shop, restaurant, theatre, festival or even at a historical landmark.
The Alnwick Brewery Company Limited initially started to brew beer in Alnwick from around 1750’s from a site in the town’s Dispensary Street. Sadly, in the 1960’s the buildings were pulled down before they could be listed, and the brewery temporarily closed only to be relaunched again in 2005 by the son of the original brewery’s last managing director.
In 2013 the business was acquired by the Harry Hotspur group who also merged into it the significant brewing skills and brewery of another local brewer (namely the former VIP Brewery at Hawkhill).
Since 2016 this integrated business has been focused on building its brewing capacity and extending its product range. From an initial selection of 5 traditional beers namely its range of casks and bottles of IPA, Amber, Stout, Brown & Gold the business has now expanded its product range. In addition to a lager, it now produces our Holy Island beer range, initially only Lindisfarne Brown and Holy Island Bitter. In we 2020 launched a wider range of more modern hoppy beers including,
-St Aidan, a citrus flavoured Cascade
-Whiteblade a light hoppy beer &
-St Cuthbert a light session pale ale
With the popularity for our brews ever increasing we recently launched a refreshing more modern looking branded range of beers in cans which are proving to be extremely popular.
Coming out of lockdown and with the growing focus on staycations our 5 litre containers of beer are now a constantly sought-after for all sorts of special social events. We have also launched an exciting cider.
As we mature, we are also now finding significant demand for us to support smaller businesses with their own bespoke products, particularly those outlets who value locally produced beers.
During the 2020 lockdown work began on the next stage of our journey. We have now created a very popular Brewery Tap and outdoor garden area at our Hawkhill location at Alnwick which is attracting tourists and local visitors alike. It holds a variety of events throughout the year.
Our vision is to next develop the site into a fully blown Visitor Centre that will attract visitors who may want to visit the brewery, see how it is done and enjoy both a beer and some great food now also available there.
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