City of Manchester Distillery — Local services in Manchester

The gin experience at Three Rivers absolutely stunned us. We came as a group of ten friends to learn something about how to make gin and get our hands dirty distilling some ourselves. I have to admit I didn't love gin and was more of a whisky man myself. However after tasting the smooth brew from Three Rivers I stood corrected. They do add a secret ingredient (which is not secret after the tour) that makes their gin much more rounded than the stuff I was used too. The experience started with a lovely GnT and some history of Manchester and gin after which we were shown their Angel still with some more insight into the production of gin. Finally we were allowed to distil our own gin with a variety of botanicals to choose from. A lot of help was offered by the team on what to look out for and how much of the ingredients to add to get a good product. If the price is an issue I must say that you do get value for money: you get your own bottle of gin to keep and they do offer several lovely beverages during the evening to keep you lubricated. It is...

Genuinely brilliant experience led by Pete who was a cracking host.

Insight into Manchester's history, the story of gin and how Three Rivers came to be are all delivered in a really slick manner.

The tour of the distillery and more details on the philosophy of the business are very interesting, there's so much more to it than you'd assume.

Then the gin school, oh how I wish actual school had been this much fun!

You're given free reign to put your stamp on a bottle of gin, working with a huge range of botanicals.

Watching it distill brings a childlike impatience, coupled with excitement, and a short while later you're bottling up a truly unique spirit to take home & enjoy.

Throughout the whole thing you'll be kept well oiled with gin-based beverages, all using Three Rivers and all excellent. So good that they even converted me from a non-gin drinker to full on enthusiast.

Superb value for money, a truly Mancunian business that deserves every success...

Only open for private, pre-booked tours/tastings!

I can’t speak to the quality of the product/service but I was disappointed to go all the way across town in the rain and cold only to be turned away because they only open for private tours. I wish it said this in their subtitle on Google maps. None of the reviews I saw mentioned it. Only gave it 3 stars because I had to pick a number in order to leave a review.

The space looked awesome and there was a group in there that looked to be having a great time. Probably very cool if you reserve your...