Setting up a Sustainable Distillery and the Challenges of Grain Processing with Rye

By the Great Northern Section

Do you have an interest in grain processing and distilling, or sustainability in small businesses? If so, we invite you to attend the IBD Great Northern Section's latest webinar "Setting up a Sustainable Distillery and the Challenges of Grain Processing with Rye!"

At the webinar, you will learn about a research project focussed on grain processing of rye and understand the journey to strive to become a carbon zero distiller.

Hear from Alan Phelp, Distillery and Blend Manager at Reivers Distillery in Tweedbank, and Ben Murphy, Head Distiller at Ad Gefrin.

Alan is a grain distiller working at an experimental grain distillery in the Borders and currently studying a PhD at Heriot Watt University on grain processing using rye.

Ben is at the newly opened Ad Gefrin Distillery and will give insight into the opening of the distillery 5 years in the making and the first to open in Northumberland for 200 years.

Speakers and host:

• Alan Phelp - Distillery and Blend Manager at Reivers Distillery in Tweedbank
• Ben Murphy - Head Distiller at Ad Gefrin
• Iain Kenny - Head of Technical Murphy and Son Ltd and Chair of UK GNS.

Why You Should Attend:

• Gain in-depth knowledge of aspects of grain distilling from a grain distiller
• Find out about sustainability in distilling
• Ask industry experts questions during the Q&A panel

Tickets: Free

Booking deadline: THURSDAY, 9 November 2023 at 12 noon