Gin Blending Masterclass at Foodies Festival Bath

Plenty of people drink gin. Very few get to make one. For 45 minutes at Foodies Festival, you will — and you'll walk away with a bottle of it.

Here's the thing about Still Life Gin: while other distilleries throw all their botanicals in the pot together and hope for the best, we distil each one separately. This means we don't hand you a finished gin and tell you it's nice — we hand you the raw ingredients and let you build your own, from scratch, like a boozy chemistry set.

So that's what you'll do. Guided by our founder (an engineer who swapped spreadsheets for spirits and hasn't looked back), you'll blend your very first gin, top it into a G&T, and drink it right there — your own creation, in your own hand, within minutes of arriving. Then, armed with the confidence of a seasoned distiller and roughly one gin's worth of experience, you'll go again — fine-tuning your recipe until it's exactly right. And this one, we bottle.

You leave with 100ml of gin that exists nowhere else in the world, because you made it. No one else has the recipe. No one else can. It's yours.

Somewhere between creative chaos and lab-coat precision is a very good place to spend 45 minutes. Come find it.

No experience necessary — just bring your curiosity. IWSC Silver medallists, University of Bath collaborators, and generally quite serious about gin, despite all evidence to the contrary above.

Please note that you must also have a ticket to Foodies Festival for the day of your booking.