Since September 2023, we’ve been B Corp certified. The impact of this goes way beyond demonstrating our commitment to sustainability: it assures our customers that they’re making a positive impact by choosing our vodka.

Our team planted 361 apple trees in the field behind our distillery, working under the supervision of tree-planting experts. Our 28 different apple tree varieties are made up of a mixture of cooking, eating and cider apples, with 12 varieties originating in Yorkshire alone. We hope to someday harvest apples from our own trees for use in our products, as well as our trees contributing positively to the environment by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow.

When designing our bottles, we chose lightweight recycled glass from a local Yorkshire supplier. Despite higher costs, this decision reduced the carbon footprint of our bottles to 0.3kg CO2 each which is 75% lower than conventional alternatives at 1.2kg CO2. Plus, we use 40% less glass than the average spirit bottle.

We think labels are unnecessary. So we removed them from our brown bottles and now print the information directly onto the bottles instead. This has allowed us to minimise the total volume of materials needed, reduce our packaging weight and create a cleaner, lighter bottle.

We want to increase the circularity of our packaging. So we released Dutch Barn Vodka miniatures (50 ml) which come in a 100% recycled European aluminium bottle. Why? Because recycled aluminium can be back on store shelves in just 60 days. And reusing it saves 90% of the carbon and energy needed to make it from scratch. It’s a no-brainer, really.

As SME Climate Hub members and signatories of The Climate Pledge, we plan to halve our emissions by 2030 and achieve net zero by 2040. We’ve also partnered with Ecologi and Climate Partner to support over 50 global projects, avoiding 360 tonnes of CO2, offsetting another 840 tonnes, planting thousands of trees and conserving thousands of hectares of old forests.