Building work on the new home of Durham Distillery is almost complete, the entrepreneur behind it has revealed.
Jon Chadwick, a former NHS boss, has spent thousands turning space under Durham's Prince Bishops Shopping Centre into a distillery, shop and bar. With a team now in place, including a Greek distiller who has previously worked for Beavertown Brewery, the visitor attract is due offer a preview event in the coming days with full opening in December.
The 5,000 sq ft distillery under the streets of Durham will host tours and drinks classes, as well offer customers the chance to buy Durham's range of gins, vodka and whisky which will use North East-sourced ingredients. Mr Chadwick said: "We've got all our existing equipment in there now, plus a couple of whisky stills we had custom built in Slovenia - which are gorgeous and about 4.5 metres high and solid copper."
