Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust have teamed up with Buxton Brewery to create a new beer to celebrate the successful reintroduction of beavers into their natural habitat in Derbyshire.

A donation for every can and pint sold will be made to the trust to support this valuable project. The beer is called ‘Dam Fine Pale’ and is a 4% Session beer. It has been designed to have a broad appeal to all beer fans.

Geoff Quinn, MD of Buxton Brewery, said; “Developing this beer to support the DWT and in particular the beaver reintroduction has been an absolute privilege. We are very proud to be corporate partners of the DWT and hope we can help raise some valuable funds for them from the sale of Dam Fine IPA.”

Find it at their Tap House and buy online.

Pledging a % per sale is a great way to support Derbyshire Wildlife Trust and nature's recovery. Plus you and your customers know that you're doing your bit to make Derbyshire wild for everyone.

Here's a quick look at what some of our current partners are doing, you can join them by clicking the 'Fundraise for us' button above.

Buxton Brewery - The award winning brewery have created a delicious IPA with our name on it. They're donating a % from every sale.

Big Wild Thought - Selling organic and sustainable clothing, Big Wild Thought donate 10% of every sale to wildlife charities; including 10% of their badger themed clothing to us.

White Peak Distillery - A long standing relationship with White Peak Distillery, includes a limited edition gin using botanicals from our reserves and the River Derwent; with a donation from each bottle sale coming our way.

As always, a massive thank you to all our partners.

White Peak Distillery’s has produced a limited edition Riverside Gin. This very special gin is flavoured with wild growing botanicals and each sale supports Derbyshire Wildlife Trust.

Just 442 bottles of the single batch distillation of Riverside Gin has been produced. It is distilled with plants hand foraged from nature reserves along the River Derwent and found growing near the Distillery. Botanicals include water mint, red clover, meadowsweet, wood sorrel and seeds from the invasive Himalayan balsam have been used along with more traditional gin ingredients including juniper, liquorice and fresh lime zest.

The first batch of Riverside Gin was distilled in 2019, after months of experimenting with plants and herbs. The winning recipe has been used to create this new batch of limited edition gin.

Max Vaughan, founder of White Peak Distillery said “After the popularity of our Riverside Gin recipe back in 2019, we’re delighted to have created another batch to be able to support the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust again. Hand foraging the botanicals in our beautiful local area reminds us to appreciate the flavours that nature has to offer in our back yard. Riverside Gin is unique both in terms of how it was created and how it tastes. It has a fresh minty flavour from the water mint, which is balanced with the creamy notes from the Himalayan balsam”.

Joanne Carnell Marketing Manager at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust said “We are delighted that Riverside Gin is on sale again and thank White Peak Distillery for their spirited support for wild places. The Rivers Team enjoyed working with them to create this special blend, foraging on our reserves along the River Derwent to find just the right herbs, which grow abundantly and often need keeping in check. This is a wonderful gin with a very special local flavour which you can enjoy knowing it’s been produced locally, hand in hand with nature.”

£3 from each bottle will be donated to the Trust.

Find out more about White Peak Distillery and the work that Derbyshire Wildlife Trust is doing in the Derwent Valley.