Psychopomp Microdistillery

Psychopomp Microdistillery grew from the home-distilling experiments of Liam Hirt and Danny Walker in Bristol. After several years of building small stills and developing recipes, Psychopomp Ltd was incorporated in April 2014, with the original distillery operating from the basement of Hirt’s home in Montpelier. In 2016 the business expanded into a former A. Jenkins grocery shop on St Michael’s Hill, which remains the home of Psychopomp’s distillery, bar and bottle shop.

Production at Psychopomp is deliberately small-scale, centred on handmade 30-litre copper pot stills and single-shot distillation. Alongside its core and seasonal gins, the distillery produces Aqvavit, absinthe, a coffee digestif and bespoke spirits for other businesses. In 2018 Hirt and Walker also established Circumstance Distillery in Bristol as a sister operation focused on whisky and other spirits produced from fermentation onward.

Psychopomp became a certified B Corporation in October 2022 and also operates with carbon-neutral certification. Its environmental programme includes recycled-glass bottles, refill systems and the use of base alcohol made entirely from organic British wheat.

Danny Walker stepped down as a director of Psychopomp Ltd in October 2023 and ceased to be a person with significant control in April 2024. Liam Hirt remains a director and is currently the company’s sole active person with significant control registered at Companies House.