Planting new Coriander crop
Planting UK Corriander Good news! Our 2019 crop of UK Coriander was planted on Wednesday 24th April All fingers are now crossed at Beacon [...]
Checking on the Spanish Citrus
Checking the progress of the Spanish Citrus The processing of citrus fruit is underway, and Tommy went to check in on the progress in [...]
Checking the UK Angelica crop
Checking the UK Angelica crop We lifted a couple of our UK Angelica plants recently to check on the root structure. We [...]
Video of juniper harvesting in Macedonia
Video of the juniper being harvested in Macedonia 2018 We put together a short video following our trip to Macedonia this year - check [...]
Increased demand for juniper harvest
Increased demand for the 2018 juniper harvest Another year on and the ‘gin boom’ is in full flow. We now turn our attention to [...]
UK Angelica benefits from warm September weather
UK Angelica benefits from warm September weather Our UK Angelica is coming along nicely and has benefitted from the recent spurt of warm weather. [...]
The Craft Distilling Expo London 2018
The Craft Distilling Expo, London 26th – 27th September 2018 Beacon Commodities have returned from a successful exhibition at the Craft Distilling Expo in [...]
Botanical supplies and Brexit
Botanical supplies and Brexit Britain will leave the EU on 29th March 2019, which is only seven months away! Focusing on botanicals We [...]
UK Angelica
UK AngelicaFinally after a few heavy rainstorms our Angelica seems to be well underway.We planted this in the Fens back in May and got off [...]
Bees and English Coriander
Bees and English Coriander The English coriander fields are perfect for honeybees in search of pollen Working with Tommy, I sometimes need a [...]
Juniper in Macedonia
Juniper crop in Macedonia. Tommy visits Macedonia to see what may be expected from the 2018 crop. Well it is safe to [...]
UK Coriander crop
UK Corriander crop Gin and beer sales are not the only thing benefiting from this lovely spell of weather we are having in the [...]
Video of Angelica planting
Video of planting angelica in the UK Beacon Commodities have planted a trial site of angelica in the heart of the Fens in the [...]
Planting angelica in the UK
Planting Angelica in the UK Beacon Commodities planted a trial site of angelica in the heart of the Fens near Huntingdon. We are excited [...]
Lemon processing in Egypt video
Lemon processing in Egypt Video We have put together a short video showing Michael hard at work peeling lemons in Egypt. [...]
Supplying the Japanese market
Japanese whisky distilleries A well-established whisky scene in Japan is leading to a number more gins being released onto the market. Many [...]
Visiting Pyeonchang
Visiting Pyeonchang Tommy and Michael visited Pyeonchang to follow James Whitley at the Winter Paralympics. Beacon Commodities ‘de-camped’ to Pyeonchang for a [...]
Lemon harvest underway in Egypt
Lemon harvest underway in Egypt Michael visits our joint venture in Egypt that produces lemon and grapefruit ribbons. With the Lemon harvest underway in Egypt, [...]
Cape Town Gin and Tonic Festival
The Cape Town Gin and Tonic Festival Attended a great South African Festival dedicated to Gin and Tonic On Sunday 25th February, Tommy was [...]
The Australian gin scene
The Australian Gin scene A 9 day tour of Australia took Tommy to see customers in and around Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. [...]
Checking on the Spanish citrus peel
Spanish citrus peel harvest is now underway We went out to Murcia to check on the Spanish citrus peel In the middle of [...]
Angelica Root supplies for the coming year
Checking on the Angelica Root supplies for the coming year In December we went to Belgium to check on Angelica Root supplies for the [...]
Weather watching and the coriander harvest
How the weather has affected the Coriander harvest in 2017 The summer of 2017 proved extremely tricky for all UK farmers and the same [...]
2017 A much improved Juniper harvest
Seeing the 2017 Juniper collection in full flow We are well into the Juniper collection now and we are pleased to report that the [...]