Jamie Baxter graduated with a degree in Biology and after a few years as a beach bum has worked in the food and drink industry for most of his life. After selling his breakfast cereal company Jamie went to work with Tyrell's Crisps' founder Will Chase to build a potato vodka distillery instead which together with Sipsmith Gin and Sacred Spirits were amongst the first smaller scale distilleries to be built in the UK for over a century. Within 6 months Chase Vodka was named best Vodka and won a double gold medal at the San Francisco World Spirits awards. When Jamie left some four years later he realised that there was no-one in UK with the same experience of setting up craft distilleries and so became a consultant to help people get started. Jamie has now built 19 distilleries - over 5% of all the distilleries currently operating in UK.