Up to £10 from the purchase of each bottle will go towards The Plough’s renovation
The Plough, Fadmoor is delighted to announce a partnership with local Cooper King Distillery to provide the community pub with a range of personalised, Yorkshire-made house spirits. Customers will now be able to purchase these drinks at events held at The Plough as well as through the Cooper King website, with up to £10 of the cost of each bottle going back to The Plough for the pub’s renovation.
Following the airing of the first series of Our Yorkshire Pub Rescue with Jon Richardson on More4 in February, The Plough has been inundated with offers of support and quickly reached the maximum limit of the Community Share Offer. Fans of the programme who are keen to get involved can now do so, whilst enjoying a Gin & Tonic or whisky at home.
“This is a fabulous opportunity for our supporters to enjoy award winning spirits when they come to The Plough but also everyone, where-ever you are based, can help us by purchasing a bottle of their favourite Cooper King tipple with money from each sale coming back to us to help fund the community pub renovation” says Debbie Sheehan, “Cooper King is a local, family run distillery with a strong sustainability ethos, so this is a great fit for us as we build meaningful partnerships with local businesses”.
Cooper King Distillery began producing gin and whisky in 2018 and is known for punching well above their weight in the English whisky scene. The small distillery is a pioneer in sustainability, and The Plough range includes carbon-negative gins and net-zero-energy Single Malt Whisky.
The Plough range of spirits will include Dry Gin (£41), Basil Gin (£41), Berry & Basil Gin Liqueur, (£34), Black Cardamom Vodka (£38) and Single Malt Whisky (£85), and are available online through the Cooper King website. Plus will be available to try at the fundraising events the pub will be hosting, and behind the bar when The Plough opens later this year. Customers who buy a bottle of any of the gins will also be able to have it refilled at the distillery in Sutton-on-the-Forest with a 15% discount.
Chris Jaume, co-owner of Cooper King Distillery says, “We are very lucky to live in this beautiful part of the country that’s so full of fantastic food and drink suppliers and amazing pubs and restaurants. Getting involved with local businesses has been central to what we do from the beginning, so we’re chuffed to be playing a part in the renaissance of The Plough. And we can’t wait to be sipping whisky at the bar there soon!”.
For further information please visit our website theploughfadmoor.co.uk and to order a bottle of gin, vodka or whisky please visit Cooper King’s online shop at:
www.cooperkingdistillery.co.uk/shop?category=The+Plough
Picture (left to right): Chris Jaume (co-owner Cooper King Distillery), Jon Richardson and Debbie Sheehan (The Plough Management Committee).
Background information
Cooper King Distillery
Founded in 2016 by Dr Abbie Jaume, a former scientist and Chris Jaume, a chartered architect, Cooper King Distillery is an independent, self-built, crowdfunded whisky and gin distillery in Sutton-on-the-Forest, York, producing sustainable spirits distilled with craftsmanship, honesty, and adventure.
Cooper King Distillery was inspired by Abbie and Chris’s desire to leave the rat-race. They travelled across the globe and became fascinated by the community of whisky distilleries in Tasmania. With a mission to bring their discoveries back to England, the couple gave up their established careers and set up a sustainable gin and whisky distillery back home in Yorkshire.
Cooper King Distillery is a pioneer in the field of sustainable spirits production. Since production began in 2018 they have been partnered with Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust: planting native broadleaf woodland since 2018, restoring wildflower meadows since 2022 and funding rural apprenticeships since 2024.
The distillery is one of only a handful in the country to run on 100% renewable energy. They produced the first gin in Europe with 1% for the Planet® accreditation and certified carbon-negative, and England’s first net zero energy whisky in 2023.
Other local partnerships have included collaborations with Haxby Bakehouse to re-use gin botanicals, distillation projects for Tommy Banks’s Michelin-starred restaurants and Skosh restaurant in York, and sourcing grain and botanicals from local suppliers.
The distillery is open for guided tours and tastings on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Tours can be booked at www.cooperkingdistillery.co.uk/guided-distillery-tour
More information available at cooperkingdistillery.co.uk
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