1. A fifth of the world's gin is made at the site and they make around 30 per cent of all UK gin
2. The distillery, part of the Quintessential Brands group, is the oldest in the country and the UK's second biggest behind Diageo Brands, the makers of Gordon's.
3. The story of Greenall's gin goes back more than 250 years when Thomas Dakin, just 25 at the time, set up a distillery in Bridge Street where Poundworld is now.
4. It was renamed Greenall's gin when the Dakin and Greenall families decided to collaborate and create G&J Distillers. But they have always stuck to the original recipe from 1761.
5. Joanne Moore, a former Bridgewater High student, has been the distillery's seventh master distiller for 11 years. She is also the business's first female master distiller.
6. Kris Dickenson, group integration director, is also a Warrington lad. He went to Woolston High.
7. Around 11 million litres of gin a year is distilled at the 26,610sq m Birchwood site.
8. Around 120 people work at the Clayton Road distillery these days
9. It's not just gin. They deal with brands all over the world and also make the likes of whisky, vodka and French liqueurs
10. The distillery has two high speed lines, worth £5million, capable of filling up to 400 bottles a minute. A third £300,000 'craft' line for more bespoke products can fill up to 40 bottles a minute
11. In the warehouse more than £3million worth of products and £2million of raw materials are stored on stacks more than 40ft high
12. There are between 200 and 300 brands in those pallets and when duty is added it accounts for tens of millions of pounds worth of product
13. Most of distillery's gins take 24 hours to produce, from weighing out the botanicals to discharging the still. It can be bottled the next day and can be potentially ready to be shipped out anywhere in the world by day three
14. The 'holy trinity' of botanicals in Greenall's is juniper berries from Tuscany, coriander seeds from Morocco and angelica root from Saxony. A 10-day supply is kept on site with the rest stored in Kent
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