Location and contact details
Location: Harling Road, Roudham NR16 2QW
Visit Type: Vistor Centre
Co-ordinates: 52.452564, 0.912130
Telephone: +44 (0) 1953 717939
Web: https://www.englishwhisky.co.uk/the-distillery/our-tours 
Twitter: The English WhiskyCo (@englishwhisky)Facts and figures
| Location | Norfolk |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Founder | James and Andrew Nelstrop |
| Owner | St George's English Whisky Company |
Opening Hours
Distillery & Shop
Mon - Sat: 10am -4pm
Sunday: 10am-3pm
Tours
10am-4pm
The Kitchen
Currently not open
Tours
St George’s Tour
Take a guided tour of our magnificent distilling floor and barrel warehouse.
Discover how our wonderful single malt whiskies are made and how St George’s Distillery became the first distillery in England to produce whisky in over 100 years. Finish your tour with the tasting of 1 award winning English Whisky and 1 liqueur.
This tour includes:
- Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of our working distillery on a detailed guided tour
- Discover the history of England’s oldest whisky distillery. Learn how our whiskies are created by our team of distillers.
- The tour includes a visit to the distilling floor, then onto a whisky warehouse where you will explore the gently maturing casks
- Guided tasting of 1 award winning English Whisky and 1 liqueur.
- Receive a £5 discount voucher which can be redeemed on English Whisky branded items (RRP over £30) – see terms and conditions.
- Receive a mini tasting glass to take home.
Review: St George's Tour (15:00 on 16/12/2018)
Price: £12.5
This was my second tour of this distillery as I visited a couple of years ago; incidentally the first visit was also in December. I rang the distillery a few days in advance of my visit to book a place; hwoever, upon arrival there was no record of my booking. Fortunately, there was space on the tour.
This time around I was on the 1500 tour and was actually the only person on the tour. Thie allowed Mark, the tour guide, to tailor the tour a little and cover areas perhaps not covered on the normal tour. Prior to the tour you're directed to a waiting area where there is free tea and coffee.
The tour was very in depth and started with a discussion of the history of the family behind the distillery and their involvement in supplying barley to the Scotch whisky industry going back a couple of centuries. He then moved onto the founding of the distilery; we then went on to tour the distillery itself seeing all parts of the process from milling, mashing, fermentation to distilling and then to one of the warehouses.
At the end of the tour, you get to sample two of their malts; the basic unaged and unaged peated whiskies. After sampling these we moved into back to the shop area where I got to sample three more whiskies and their three single grain whiskies (made with multiple grains and not just the wheat of which you normally hear).
At the end of the tour, I said to Mark that the tour was probably in the top 2-3, but on reflection, I'd say this was actually the best tour I've been on.
History
Initially the distillery was planned as a microbrewery, an experiment in turning excess barley into whisky. St. George's Distillery now produces in excess of 1,500 litres of alcohol a year. Marks and Spencer began selling own-label English whisky in October 2013 which is distilled at St George's.
The founder of the distillery, James Nelstrop, described manufacturing whisky in Norfolk as a dream forty-five years in culmination. His son, Andrew Nelstrop, was the main contractor in the building's construction. The barley now used by the distillery is sourced in Norfolk and historically would have been exported to Scotland's whisky makers.
The premises were officially opened by Prince Charles in March 2007. In 2010 there was a fire at the distillery, which reportedly was only minutes from burning down stock reserves. Nobody was injured and production returned to normal soon after.
