Our record-breaking Founders Release cask programme Is Now Sold Out

We are happy to announce the completion of our record-breaking 'Founders Release' cask programme. Thirty eight, 200 litre whisky casks were released as part of the programme, priced at £8,000 each. Our distillery believes this to be one of, if not the highest average sale price of any first cask release programme in the UK.

Our English single malt whisky has been created in a unique collaboration with the renowned Theakston Brewery of Masham, North Yorkshire. Drawing on the esteemed brewer’s nearly 200 years of brewing heritage, this new English single malt has been crafted to boast maximum flavour from the start, being born from a flavourful drinkable beer, as opposed to a more traditional rudimentary whisky wash.

The Founders Release is currently ageing in first-fill Bourbon barrels. It promises to be an exquisite carbon-neutral New World whisky, created in the heart of North Yorkshire. The unaged New Make Spirit has already taken gold at this year’s Global World Whisky Masters.

“We’re doing something truly innovative and it’s great to see so many people interested in that story and support us as a new whisky distillery by purchasing casks through our Founders Release programme. We are on a journey to show the real possibilities of English whisky and we can’t wait to raise a glass with each of our Founders Release owners.” - Chris Fraser, Founder at Ellers Farm Distillery

For anyone that missed out on the Founders Release programme, a limited-edition run of only 500 sets of our Evolution Collection are now available on the Ellers Farm website - learn more here. The collection features our New Make spirit - ‘The Bairn’ – 0, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months, to showcase every stage of its flavour evolution, culminating late in 2025 with 1 of 1,000 individually numbered bottles of our First Release English single malt whisky.