Opening Hours

• Saturday, 12-6 pm, shop, bar & tours
  

Visit us for a chat, to book a tour, buy a bottle or enjoy a drink at the bar.

Be sure to bring your empty Cooper King bottle back for a gin refill.

Cooper King Distillery is a self-built, whisky and gin distillery in Sutton-on-the-Forest, York, producing sustainable spirits distilled with craftsmanship, honesty and adventure. It’s the first in England to produce net-zero-energy whisky and Carbon-negative gins.

Cooper King Distillery is one of only a handful in the country to run on 100% green energy. Producing the first gin in Europe with 1% for the Planet® accreditation, 1 square metre of English woodland is planted for every bottle of gin sold. We also donate 3% of every bottle of whisky sold to our charity partner, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, to fund life-changing apprenticeships for young people in rural areas, to help protect vital UK habitats

Founded in 2016 by Dr Abbie Neilson, a former scientist and Chris Jaume, a chartered architect, the distillery was inspired by their desire to leave the rat race. Chris and Abbie travelled across the globe and became fascinated by the eight operational whisky distilleries in Tasmania. With a mission to bring their discoveries back to England, the couple gave up their established careers and set up a truly independent gin and whisky distillery back home in Yorkshire. Read more about our story behind the distillery here