English Angelica Harvest
English angelica harvest We are excited to report that our English Angelica has just been harvested after 15 months in the ground This is [...]
Brexit and botanical trading
Brexit again - and the future for botanical trading There is much uncertainty surrounding the details and what the outcome of Brexit might mean [...]
Inspecting this year’s Juniper crop
Inspecting this year’s Juniper crop Tommy has just returned from a recent trip to inspect this year’s Juniper crop and to discuss plans with [...]
Preparing to harvest this year’s Juniper crop
Preparing for the new crop of juniper to be harvested A short video of us checking this years great crop - check it out [...]
Progress of our UK Angelica crop
Inspecting progress of our UK Angelica crop We have recently been to inspect the progress of our UK Angelica crop which ‘celebrated’ its 12-month [...]
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. [...]