Quintessentially

English Spirits

Welcome to Beckett’s, a range of exquisite spirits, all beautifully flavourful and with our signature smooth finish.

Our flagship spirit is a London Dry Gin distilled in London using the finest ingredients, most notably juniper berries from England and mint from Kingston-upon-Thames.

We also make a batch of Sloe Gin every year using our London Dry. This has a beautiful cherry and almond sweetness followed by a lovely warm finish.

Our third is Spirited Gin, a bold gin full of spirit. It has beautifully balanced citrus notes of lime and sweet orange peel, our signature bittersweetness and a higher proof too. 

And now, Beckett’s Single Malt English Whisky. We have rested our malt spirit in American oak casks that we had used to store our classic sloe gin. The result is a wonderfully smooth single malt English whisky that is both sweet and fruity with a long honey finish. 

Botanicals

‘Less is more’

Robert Browning

The key to our gins’ pre-eminence are our unique ingredients. We use just six complementary botanicals throughout our range which are in perfect harmony.

First of course, is the juniper. We are unique in using English juniper berries handpicked from Box Hill in Surrey with kind permission of the National Trust and Natural England.

For the citrus notes we use Moroccan lime and coriander. We also add Spanish sweet orange peel and Italian orris root to smooth these notes to perfection. It is the spirit equivalent of analogue sound; mellow and harmonious.

Finally, the masterstroke, we infuse our gin with mint grown here in Kingston-upon-Thames. This quintessential English herb works wonderfully with our other botanicals to create a warm, aromatic and bittersweet character and helps to produce our signature smooth, cool finish.

Our Home

It is apt, given that gin has become the classic English spirit, for us to be located where England began. It was here in the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames where King Athelstan, the first king of England, was crowned in 925AD. He united the Saxon kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia and conquered the Viking kingdoms of Northumbria and York to form the Kingdom of England.