Selling flavoured spirits

[ginginginny]

My family and I are in the process of buying a pub and I’m having a disagreement with my sister. She wants to do a range of homemade spirits. So she’d buy for example Gordon’s Gin, add apples and then sell it as ‘The pub name apple gin’.

I can’t find any info online to say if she can do this or not, does anyone here know?

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She will need a Compounder's License.

As Coat says she will also need to comply with the law regarding packaging, health and safety, testing, labelling regulations. Nearly anyone who does this properly/legally will sub out the entire process and just sell the end product which arrives with them fully compliant and essentially retail ready.

It is unlikely to be worth the effort, it is certainly not worth dodging the legal side as the fines will be huge, as well as the potential to lose the pub it's license.

Thanks. I’ve read about the compounders license but it doesn’t say you can’t bottle it and sell it with your own handwritten labels!
I can’t find anything online about the regulations re packaging etc so it’s all falling on deaf ears

Maybe signature cocktails are an easier option

You are probably right.
I can’t find the info on the council website so will have to call. It all seems very complicated with many different organisations involved. She seems to think if she gets the license it’s fine but that wouldn’t make the EHO happy would it?