Brancaster Pink Gin

Blackberries and pink elderflower – a naturally fruity expression of Brancaster Gin

Brancaster Pink Gin takes the distinctive, award-winning Brancaster Gin and delicately infuses it with the natural flavours and colours of blackberries and pink elderflower.

Rather than creating sweetness and colour simply for the sake of producing another pink gin, Brancaster Drinks has again looked to the landscape and changing seasons around its North Norfolk home.

Pink elderflower appears in spring, while blackberries ripen in the hedgerows as summer gives way to autumn. Together they create a gently fruity expression of the original Brancaster Gin with a flavour – and story – firmly connected to life around the village.

What does Brancaster Pink Gin taste like?

Expect a gentle, naturally fruity gin with blackberry and delicate floral elderflower notes, underpinned by the botanical character of the original Brancaster Gin.

Blackberry brings soft, dark-fruit character while pink elderflower contributes a lighter floral note. Behind them remains the juniper and coastal botanical foundation of Brancaster Gin.

The result is fruity without losing sight of the fact that this is still a gin – an important distinction in a category where colour and sweetness can sometimes become more important than the spirit itself.

Blackberries and pink elderflower

The two ingredients that give Brancaster Pink Gin its distinctive character also reflect different moments in the North Norfolk year.

Pink elderflower marks the spring, while blackberries belong to the hedgerows of late summer and autumn.

For Brancaster Drinks, these seasonal changes are part of what they describe as the heartbeat of village life, alongside another familiar seasonal sight: the great skeins of pink-footed geese that fill the skies over this part of Norfolk between autumn and spring.

It's a connection that gives the choice of ingredients considerably more meaning than simply turning the gin pink.

Built on the original Brancaster Gin

At the heart of Brancaster Pink Gin is the company's award-winning original Brancaster Gin.

That gin takes its inspiration from botanicals associated with the marshes, dunes and countryside around Brancaster, including samphire, gorse, sea buckthorn and elderflower, together with local honey.

For the Pink Gin, that established botanical base is given another dimension through the addition of blackberry and pink elderflower, creating something softer and fruitier while retaining the character of the original spirit underneath.

A taste of the North Norfolk seasons

One of the most interesting things about the Brancaster Drinks range is how individual bottles tell different parts of the same North Norfolk story.

Here, it's about the changing seasons: pink elderflower in spring, blackberries in autumn and pink-footed geese returning to Norfolk's skies as the colder months approach.

The result is a Pink Gin that has a reason for its ingredients beyond simply following the pink gin trend – they are part of the landscape and seasonal rhythm that inspired Brancaster Drinks in the first place.

How to enjoy Brancaster Pink Gin

Brancaster Drinks recommends serving its Pink Gin with a premium mixer and either a frozen blackberry or a slice of orange.

Its combination of fruit, floral character and the botanical foundation of the original Brancaster Gin also makes it equally suited to refreshing warmer-weather drinks or something a little more warming as the seasons change.

Product details

Spirit: Pink Gin

Based on: Award-winning Brancaster Gin

Key flavours: Blackberry and Pink Elderflower

Character: Gently fruity, floral and naturally refreshing

Original gin botanicals include: Samphire, Gorse, Sea Buckthorn and Elderflower

Inspiration: Brancaster and the changing seasons of the North Norfolk coast