Greetings, foul friends!
No sooner have the Halloween embers petered out than we’re lighting new fires to celebrate Guido Fawkes being hung, drawn, and quartered over 400 years ago. Oh, how we love this quaint little country of yours!
We hope you’re all enjoying the pitch-black mornings since the clocks went back? We certainly are. The trees are now completely bare, and the werewolves are having a grand old time diving into the piles of leaves that Burton the Groundskeeper has raked up (he’s less happy about it as he’s not as sprightly on his feet as he used to be).
There’s also a thin layer of fog around the Lodge, meaning the distillery is in almost perpetual darkness. Marvellous!
But enough of this idle chit-chat; there’s news to be told, fires to be stoked, and award-winning Black Lodge Potions gin to be made!
Onward!
FESTIVALS
As regular readers of the Black Lodge Journals will know, we rather enjoy escaping the catacombs of the distillery a few times a month. It’s so refreshing to speak to people that have a pulse every once in a while…
This month is no exception. We’re loading up the hearse with Black Lodge Potions and will be at no less than 7 different artisan and Christmas markets.
Whether you’ve seen us on your travels before, or if you’re just curious about what our flavours taste like before you buy a bottle, come along to one of the events listed below to say hello.
There’ll be plenty of gin to sample, and we’ll ask Sweeney the Chef if he can rustle up some of his famous toenail hors d’oeuvres for you to snack on whilst you drink.
2nd – Sutton Coldfield Market
3rd – Leamington Christmas Market
9th – Market Drayton Artisan Market
14-17th – Festive Gift Fair @ Birmingham NEC
23-24th – Trentham Christmas Market
29th – Tutbury Christmas Lights Switch On
30th – Trentham Christmas Market
GIN OF THE MONTH
Asking us to pick which one of our flavours is our favourite is like asking you humans to pick your favourite child. Secretly, you have one, but to save face, you say you like them all equally.
Which is why we came up with our gift pack.
Each pack contains:
🕷️ One 5cl bottle of Black Lodge Craft Gin (44% abv)
🕷️ One 5cl bottle of Stinging Nettle & Honey Gin (40% abv)
🕷️ One 5cl bottle of Wild Strawberry & Black Pepper Gin (40% abv)
🕷️ One 5cl bottle of Cherry, Chilli Chocolate Gin (40% abv)
🕷️ One 5cl bottle of Smoky Berries & Liquorice Gin (40% abv)
Each flavour comes in a small apothecary-style bottle, which you could reuse to store scents, blends, herbs, spices, shrunken heads, and other pickled body parts for your own potions.
Ideal as a gift or as a treat for yourself, our five-gin gift pack is the perfect introduction to the Black Lodge Potions flavours. With Christmas just around the corner, they are extremely popular at this time of year, so we recommend ordering quickly before they sell out.
UNTIL NEXT TIME…
Well, mortals, we can’t stand around chewing the fat all day when there’s work to be done and gin to drink (incidentally, there’s a suspicious lack of fat to be chewed. Not even so much as an earlobe).
Christmas will soon be upon us, so we need to make sure we have enough gin to go around the festive season. Once we’ve hit our quota, we’ve promised the Lodge that we’ll play a game we’ve heard about called Whamageddon. If you’re unfamiliar with this game, you have to get from December 1st to December 24th without hearing Wham!’s classic song, Last Christmas. If you do hear it, you get bludgeoned to death.
Wait, what?
We’re just hearing that you don’t get bludgeoned to death, you’re just out of the game.
Well, where’s the fun in that?!
Back to the production line, everyone…
Stay spooky,
Brother G and Brother T
