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Distillery

Distillery

Premium spirit drinks and liqueurs of internationally recognised quality.

How are they made?
Take a peek into our distillery and discover the secrets of making Berryshka premium spirits and liqueurs of internationally recognised quality.

Take a peek into our distillery

Creation of Slovenian Juniper brandy of internationally recognised quality

1. Selection of juniper berries

We use a device called a selector to thoroughly clean the juniper berries and remove everything we don’t want in our drinks: insects, juniper needles, dry and green berries…

We carefully control every step to ensure we use juniper berries of the highest quality.

2. Grinding juniper berries

The best berries are ground in a mill, they then fall through the shafts straight into the copper steels where the distillation begins.

3. Extraction of essential oil

The essential oil content is removed from the berries by steam distillation that takes several hours in copper steels. Distilled berries are then transferred to fermentation tanks, we add spring water from the primeval forest of Kočevje and special yeasts.

4. Fermentation

We leave the mixture of berries, yeasts and water in the fermentation tank for about a month. Yeasts during this time turn sugar into alcohol. The process is completed under the controlled temperature and with careful and regular checks while yeasts change all the sugar into the alcohol.

5. Distillation

Making juniper brandy is a demanding and time-consuming process that requires not only precision, but also a lot of knowledge, many years of experience and the right touch. The alcohol produced by the yeasts is distilled several times, which gives the juniper brandy its purity and velvety taste. Finally, it is diluted to be drinkable. Only then is the juniper brandy ready for bottling.

6. Manual bottle filling, capping and labelling

The bottles are manually cleaned, filled, closed and labelled at the bottling plant. The bottles are then placed into transport cartons, cartons on pallets, and the pallets then travel across Slovenia to the stores.

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The Company

Berryshka d.o.o.
Škrjanče 31
SI-1295 Ivančna Gorica

Business Units

Berryshka – distillery, chocolatier, café and shop
Obrh 17a
8350 Dolenjske Toplice

Berryshka – shop
Gospodarska cona Škrjanče 31
1295 Ivančna Gorica

 

Contact

+386 31 705 438
+386 1 7800 144
info@berryshka.com

Opening hours BU Obrh

Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 12:00 – 21:00

Opening hours BU Ivančna Gorica

Monday – Friday: 9:00 – 17:00

Saturday: 9:00 – 12:00

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