The Botanist Islay Dry Gin Forges Partnership to Create a Sustainable Cocktails Series for B Corp Month

February 19, 2025 –The Botanist Islay Dry Gin U.S. has partnered with Kelsey Ramage, founder of sustainable cocktail consulting group Trash Collective, to develop a series of upcycled gin cocktails to celebrate B Corp Month in March.  

The Botanist is produced by Bruichladdich Distillery in Islay, Scottland – one of few distilleries in the world to achieve a B Corp Certification, a prestigious marker of high environmental and social standards. In its most recent re-certification, Bruichladdich Distillery reached a new milestone, surpassing a B Corp Impact score of 100. This marks a 21% score increase since becoming the first B Corp-certified gin and Scotch whisky distillery in Europe in 2020. The partnership with Trash Collective in the U.S. serves as an embodiment of sustainability, education, and creativity, showcasing both The Botanist’s leadership in eco-conscious innovation within the spirits industry as well as the gin’s versatility and mixability in cocktails. 

The Botanist x Trash Collective B Corp Cocktail Series demonstrates how commonly wasted kitchen and bar ingredients can be upcycled into delicious, innovative drinks. The recipes use accessible ingredients commonly found in consumers’ homes and at bars, from components that are typically discarded – like pineapple skins, mint stems, banana peels, and spent coffee grounds – to innately sustainable ingredients like red clover or mushrooms. The techniques used are easy to replicate at home or at scale in bars and restaurants, providing cost-saving solutions for bars who may opt in to these less wasteful bar practices. 

 As part of the initiative, The Botanist and Trash Collective have created two additional cocktails to be featured at 1 Hotels, a leader in eco-conscious hospitality. The Botanist, Trash Collective, and 1 Hotels identified ingredients from the 1 Hotels pantry list to create unique, flavorful cocktails that promote sustainable bar operations. Starting in March, travelers and locals alike can stop in to enjoy the Umami Tides (featuring The Botanist, mushrooms and kombu) or the Clover Crush (featuring The Botanist, red clover and upcycled sparkling wine syrup). 

Imbibers in the U.S. can also enjoy The Botanist x Trash Collective cocktails at select bars and restaurants. These include the Pineapple Negroni, featuring The Botanist Distiller’s Strength and a pineapple skin aperitivo, and the Banana Coffee Sour, which features The Botanist Islay Cask Rested Gin and a banana peel and spent coffee grounds syrup. 

 About The Botanist 

Founded in 2010, The Botanist Islay Dry Gin is distilled and hand-crafted at Bruichladdich Distillery on Islay, a remote island off the west coast of Scotland. Hailing from one of the only B Corp-certified distilleries in the world, The Botanist believes in using business as a force for good, putting people and planet in line with profit. The craft liquid is distilled with a unique combination of 22 wild Islay botanicals that are hand-foraged locally and sustainably on the island by The Botanist's professional foragers, James Donaldson and Kate Hannett.  

The Islay botanicals are slow simmer distilled with pure Islay spring water in a unique Lomond Still, affectionately nicknamed Ugly Betty, by Head Distiller Adam Hannett. The result is a smooth yet complex gin that speaks of Islay.  

About Kelsey Ramage/Trash Collective 

Trash Collective is a cocktail consulting and educational resource for bartenders and bar owners. The organization specializes in creating menus from concept to cocktail with a focus on sustainability, bartender technique, efficient systems, and tighter operations.  

Originally formed in 2016 as anti-waste bartender education platform and touring pop-up 'Trash Tiki', Trash Collective pioneered the connection of sustainability to the bar industry. What started as a free recipe-focused blog has evolved to encompass bar and brand creative concepts, educational talks and bartender training programs. 

About 1 Hotels 

As a mission-driven luxury lifestyle hotel brand inspired by nature, 1 Hotels cultivates the best of sustainable design and architecture together with extraordinary comfort and an unrivaled level of service. 1 Hotels—which launched in 2015 with the opening of exclusive properties in Miami's South Beach and Manhattan's Central Park; followed by Brooklyn, located on the East River, in February 2017; West Hollywood, on Sunset Boulevard, in June 2019; Sanya (China) in 2020; Toronto in 2021; San Francisco and Nashville in 2022; and in 2023, the Hanalei Bay flagship property and Mayfair (London), the brand's first European property—is inspired by a simple idea: those that travel the world should also care about it. It is, after all, 1 world. 

1 Hotels upholds this vision by channeling nature through design and culinary partnerships while connecting with the local community and taking sustainable steps to make a big difference. The brand is expanding with properties under development in Austin, Cabo San Lucas, Paris, Copenhagen, Elounda Hills (Crete), Riyadh, Melbourne, Seattle, Tokyo and San Miguel de Allende.