About Tappers Distillery & Gin
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Launched in 2016 by Steve Tapril, Tappers Gin Distillery is based in West Kirby on the Wirral in the north west of England. Their debut gin, Darkside, was launched the same year and is produced using the 'cold compounding' method, with its name referring back to the early 20th Century when day-trippers visiting the seaside villages of the Wirral peninsula began calling the Wirral the 'dark side' of the River Mersey. In 2020, Tappers Distillery launched Brightside Gin, a London Dry distilled version of the Darkside recipe, becoming the first distillery to produce both a distilled and cold compounded version of the same recipe. |
Tappers Darkside Coastal Gin
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The Gin Guide Review: As well as having an instantly recognisable bottle, Tappers Darkside Gin achieves the increasingly difficult task of being instantly recognisable to taste. Darkside Gin has well-balanced bright high notes and underlying deep notes, with enjoyable green and vegetal character, earthy juniper, and subtle sweetness. The complexity and depth of flavour is impressive, and the light, clean and smooth finish caps it off with lingering black cardamom. It is distinctive and characterful both when neat and when mixed. - Paul Jackson, 2019
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Tappers Brightside Gin
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The Gin Guide Review: As the distilled sister spirit to Tappers Darkside Gin, Brightside Gin is very fitting of the name thanks to a refreshing and bright character. It is a distinctly different spirit to Darkside in character while maintaining some pleasing connections in flavour profile. With Tonic Water it is full and balanced, carrying its flavour impressively when mixed, with soothing savoury and subtly coastal notes alongside piney juniper, while peppery green notes ensure presence amidst the Tonic Water. It is a wonderful and interesting idea to produce a distilled counterpart to the original cold compounded Darkside recipe and Brightside is very much its own spirit, delivered cohesively and with plentiful personality that we've come to expect from Tappers Distillery. - Paul Jackson, 2021
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Meet the Makers
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"Over a pint of craft beer, and much encouragement from friends bored to death with my grumbling, I decided to make my own gin and show that it could be done. I wanted to prove a local gin really could be local, so I set about researching local seaside botanicals that grow around my hometown of West Kirby and the rest of the Wirral Peninsula, and the flavours they’d impart." - Steve Tapril, Founder
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For more gins from the Wirral, Liverpool and Merseyside area, visit our Merseyside Gin Guide.
For more gins from the Wirral, Liverpool and Merseyside area, visit our Merseyside Gin Guide.
