Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Food & Farming Awards 2021 Best Drinks Producer finalists
Black Cow Vodka
From a family of cheese makers, Jason Barber was inspired by a drink made by Genghis Khan and his armies who fermented milk into an alcoholic beverage. Their milk is separated into curds and whey. The curds are used to make cheese; the whey is fermented into a beer using a special yeast that converts the milk sugar into alcohol. This milk beer is then distilled, treated and filtered and turned into vodka.
Dark Woods Coffee
Dark Woods Coffee is a coffee roaster, Barista school, and pop-up café nestled on the edge of Marsden village in the West Yorkshire Pennines. They roast their coffee by hand on a 1950's Probat drum roaster in a beautifully refurbished Victorian textile mill beside the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and River Colne. Dark Woods was born in 2013 and the history of its founding partners takes in many years' experience in roasting, sourcing, consultancy, training and machine development within the UK coffee industry.
Tillingham Wines
Tillingham is set amongst 70 acres of rolling hills and woodlands with far reaching views along the Tillingham River valley and across to the fortified, hill top town of Rye, East Sussex, to the sea and the Romney salt marshes beyond. This mixed farm, which dates from the 13th century, is home to vineyards, fruit trees, ancient woodland and livestock. The philosophy at Tillingham incorporates the best scientific and technological knowledge available, whilst championing ancient traditions and best practice learnt from millennia of farming and winemaking.