Eden Mill Distillery has announced the appointment of former BrewDog Distilling Co MD Steven Kersley as its chief executive officer.
Kersley, who exited BrewDog last October before the closure of its spirits arm was confirmed, takes charge of Eden Mill after its purchase out of administration by investment company Ruby Capital last November.
Kersley had “over a decade of senior leadership experience in the scotch whisky and craft spirits industry”, Eden Mill said in a statement. Prior to joining BrewDog in 2015, he spent three years as a site operations manager for booze giant Diageo.
His appointment marked “the beginning of a new chapter for Eden Mill”, the St Andrews-based distillery added.
“We acquired Eden Mill because we believe in what it can become,” said Tony Banks, chairman of Ruby Capital. “It has an extraordinary location, a loyal following, and the infrastructure to grow into something significant.
“Appointing Steven is the most important step we’ve taken since acquisition. He understands this industry from the ground up, he has the commercial ambition we need, and he shares our absolute commitment to making whisky of the highest quality. That shared goal is the foundation everything else is built on.”
Kersley added: “We have an incredible back-catalogue of award-winning spirits, but what excites me most are the spirits that are yet to come. We’re building a whisky programme that’s uncompromising in its ambition: a wood policy of serious depth and intention, underpinned by a distillate that’s been crafted by layering flavour at every stage of production.”
Eden Mill was founded in 2012 by Tony Kelly and Paul Miller. Its gins are sold in Waitrose, as well as in Tesco and Sainsbury’s sites in Scotland.
The distiller blamed “the challenges of the global whisky sector”, alongside a delay to the opening of its on-site visitor centre, for its collapse into administration last autumn.
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