Mentioned alongside Cartier and Bentley, the drink created by a chemistry teacher in a Lancashire garage
18.02.2024 - 12:51
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Butter pies, rag pudding, Blackpool rock, parched peas. There are loads of delicacies that roll off the tongue when you think of Lancashire and food.
But in a county fond of its traditions, there is one more unusual spot bucking the trend on the Fylde coast. Despite starting in a garage, its name is now mentioned alongside the likes of Bentley and Cartier. And it has 'a little bit of Lancashire' inside every drop.
Fronted by husband and wife team, Sara and Paul Dewhurst started Lytham Gin in 2018 when Sara was looking for a career change. A chemistry graduate, she worked in the industry for a while before becoming a chemistry teacher at Lytham High School. She then moved on to another in Blackpool, where she became assistant headteacher.
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But eventually, Sara realised she didn't want to "do that forever" and her attention was directed elsewhere. For a couple of years, she ran a delicatessen in Lytham before continuing the obvious trajectory and moving on to try creating her own gin. Within months, it had become her full-time job.
"I've always liked gin so I thought, let's have a crack at making it and we'll call it Lytham Gin," Sara told LancsLive. "Within two months, I had to pass the delicatessen on to a manager to manage it full time and then sold it because the gin just took over. It quickly became a full-time job."
Sara first started the brand to compliment her delicatessen and combine her love for chemistry, reports LancsLive. Seeing the brand grow and grow, Sara also works with her husband Paul who was incidentally a former specialist in manufacturing processes and systems having worked at Heinz.
The entrepreneur explained the journey from a couple