Have your own gin distilled – Contract distilling in Basel.

We distil your gin at the Aktienmühle distillery: your own recipe, your own label, from 10 bottles. For companies, bars, clubs and private occasions across Switzerland.

Send a no-obligation enquiry How it works Calculate your price
CHF 65 per bottle at 10 bottles
30+ recipes developed
From 10 bottles minimum order
48h reply to your enquiry
Who we produce for

Three audiences.

Whether you are building a brand, putting a signature gin behind your bar or want a gin for your club – we have the right setup.

Companies & Brands

Your white label – your brand

For retailers, event brands and companies that want their own gin distilled at scale and in confidence.

  • Scalable batches, any volume
  • NDA and full confidentiality
  • Exclusive recipe development
  • Packaging and logistics from one source
  • Also for anniversary, Christmas and client gifts
  • Reproducible quality, batch after batch
Bartenders & Hospitality

Your signature gin behind the bar

Your own line for collaborations, house gins or limited editions. Very small runs are welcome.

  • From 10 bottles, CHF 65 per bottle
  • Develop the recipe in the gin workshop
  • Custom label and bottle
  • Laser branding on wood, leather and more
  • Gift boxes with glasses and tonics
  • Liqueurs and vermouth to your recipe as well
  • Premix cocktails in kegs, such as Espresso Martini
Clubs & private occasions

Your gin – for your clique, club or celebration

For cliques, clubs, weddings and milestone birthdays. A gin that exists nowhere else.

  • From 10 bottles, also for small groups
  • Motif, crest or year on the label
  • Kept under wraps until the occasion, on request
  • As a gift for members or guests
  • 3–5 weeks from order to delivery
Equipment and experience

What we work with.

We have been distilling at the Aktienmühle in Basel since 2018. More than thirty recipes have been created since, awarded Gold at the Concours International de Lyon 2024 and Grand Gold at the Frankfurt International Trophy.

Open copper pot still seen from above, filled with botanicals, at the Aktienmühle distillery in Basel

Copper pot still
Arnold Holstein SH 900

300 litre capacity, built by the coppersmith in Markdorf on Lake Constance.

  • Copper 4 mm thick, hammered copper head
  • Indirect heating via water bath, 45 kW – nothing scorches
  • Agitator for even heating
  • Batches from ten bottles up to full runs
Still with copper pot, rectification column and tanks, a member of staff in front

Rectification column
and catalyst

Copper column, 400 mm diameter, with three individually switchable bubble plates.

  • Precise separation of heads, hearts and tails
  • Adjustable dephlegmator – more aroma or more purity
  • Patented copper catalyst binds unwanted compounds
  • Aroma basket with three sieve trays for botanicals in the vapour
Distiller at the rotary evaporator, the copper pot still behind, at GIN LAB. Basel

Büchi
rotary evaporators

Several units for vacuum distillation at low temperature.

  • Botanicals that lose their aroma under heat stay intact
  • Over twenty single distillates, each distilled separately
  • Recipes exactly reproducible, batch after batch
  • Fine adjustment without a new distillation run

Not just gin — aquavit, absinthe, liqueur, vermouth, fruit brandy

GIN LAB is a contract distillery in Basel, Switzerland. We produce spirits under contract: gin, aquavit, absinthe, hop spirit, blood orange spirit, liqueur, vermouth, fruit brandy and beer brandy — for brands, hotels, restaurants and companies, with your recipe and your label. From ten bottles with an existing recipe, from three hundred when we develop a new one.

For every macerated spirit the method stays the same: botanicals in neutral alcohol, macerate, distil under vacuum, blend, bring to drinking strength. Aquavit with caraway and dill, absinthe with wormwood and anise, hop spirit from aroma hops, blood orange spirit from the peel. Whatever can be macerated can be distilled. Liqueurs and vermouth to your recipe as well.

With fruit brandies it starts earlier. A fruit brandy does not begin with us but with the fruit: mash, fermentation, weeks of controlled fermentation, then a first and a second distillation. Beer brandy sits in between — the beer is already fermented, so fermentation management falls away, but what we distil is still a mash rather than a macerate. We quote both separately, because there the raw material sets the price, not the time on the still.

Your path to your own bottle

From idea to delivery – in 4 steps

Straightforward, transparent and on schedule. We guide you through the whole process.

01

Briefing

We define your profile, your audience and the volume you need together.

02

Recipe

Botanical selection and distillation method – your idea or our creation, developed in the gin workshop in Basel.

03

Production

Distillation at the Aktienmühle distillery, quality-checked and reproducible.

04

Delivery

Bottling, labelling and shipping – on schedule, straight to you.

You can prepare step 01 yourself. The concept form covers style, botanicals, bottle, closure, label and packaging – and tells you what we need for a concrete quote.

Concept form as PDF
Personalisation

We do the engraving and packaging ourselves.

We laser-engrave wooden corks and gift boxes in house — company logo, crest, year. Individually per bottle on request. The closure is where a corporate gift becomes recognisable as one, without needing a sticker.

Eight wooden corks with laser-engraved client logos for personalised gin bottles
Wooden corks, engraved with the client logo.
Laser engraving of a wooden cork with a client logo at the distillery in Basel
Engraving happens at the distillery, not at a supplier.
Laser-engraved cardboard gift box for a personalised gin bottle
Gift boxes, engraved as well.
Corporate gifts

You don't pack anything and you don't ship anything.

Most suppliers deliver a pallet to your office. Then you spend December between cardboard boxes and address lists. We take that part: we pack, add your card and ship to each recipient individually.

Packaging

Packed and shipped safely

Every set arrives fully packed. What's inside is seen first by the recipient.

  • Gift box, filling material, band
  • DHL-certified shipping carton for single bottles
  • The strictest test standard in parcel shipping
  • Your own packaging or band on request
  • Plain outer carton
Greeting card

Your words, in every parcel

A card goes into every parcel. You supply the text, we add it.

  • One text for everyone or one per recipient
  • Format, paper and print agreed per project
  • Several print partners so the card matches your brand
  • The text comes from the same list as the address
Individual shipping

To each recipient separately

You send us names and addresses, we ship individually and report back what arrived.

  • Shipped with Planzer, or Swiss Post on request
  • Around CHF 12 per recipient, listed separately in the quote
  • Tracking and proof of delivery for every parcel
  • Status list back to you, follow-up included
  • Individual shipping within Switzerland, abroad on request
  • Several thousand parcels are not a special case

Order deadline for Christmas 2026: 15 November. With your own label: 31 October. With your own recipe: 15 October. After that we solve individual cases but make no promises. Prefer one address or several sites? Tell us the split and we'll pick and pack accordingly. Collection at Gärtnerstrasse 46 by arrangement.

What others say

Projects from the distillery.

"Gin Lab developed a great recipe with us in the workshop and responded to every request. From package design to delivery, everything worked perfectly."

Basel carnival clique · 300 bottles

"From the first conversation to the finished bottle, everything ran smoothly. The quality convinced us."

Swiss event brand · 500 bottles

"Our house gin outsells every other gin behind the bar. Guests ask for it by name."

Bar manager, Basel · 50 bottles per quarter

"Anniversary gin for 200 employees – delivered on time, packaging flawless."

SME north-west Switzerland · 200 bottles

Frequently asked questions

Questions people ask.

CHF 65 per bottle at ten bottles, with a standard bottle and standard label. The price per bottle falls with larger volumes. Custom bottle shapes and special labels are quoted separately. After your enquiry you receive a concrete quote within 48 hours.
Yes. We produce to your existing recipe or develop a new one with you. Everything stays confidential – nothing is passed on to third parties.
No. We also distil aquavit, absinthe, hop spirit, blood orange spirit and other macerated spirits, plus liqueurs and vermouth to your recipe. For hospitality we fill premix cocktails into kegs – Espresso Martini and others, mixed and ready to pour. Write to us with what you have in mind.
Yes, but we quote those separately. A fruit brandy starts with the fruit: mash, fermentation over several weeks, then a first and a second distillation. Beer brandy skips the fermentation management because the beer is already fermented, but what we distil is still a mash and not a macerate. In both cases the raw material sets the price rather than the time on the still, so tell us the fruit or the beer and the quantity and we will calculate it.
Technically yes – our rotary evaporators are the right tool for it. Alcohol-free means considerably more effort around shelf life and bottling, so we assess each case individually. Ask us and we will tell you plainly whether it makes sense for your volume.
With an existing recipe and standard packaging, about 3–5 weeks. With a custom bottle and label, we plan for 6–8 weeks.
Yes. On request we sign an NDA before the first conversation. Your recipe belongs to you.
Yes. Label and motif stay under wraps with us until you want to show them. For carnival cliques that means nothing becomes visible before the Morgestraich.
Yes. You are free to choose bottle, label, box and branding. We support you with the design or implement your finished artwork – including laser branding on wood, leather and more.
Setting up the machine costs 80 francs, then 1 franc per engraving. From around fifty pieces the setup charge barely matters.
We ship primarily within Switzerland and to Germany and Austria. For other countries we agree the terms individually during the briefing.

Work out your price yourself

Our calculator shows what your gin costs per bottle: you set the quantity, the strength, the bottle, the closure, the label and the delivery format. You see how many batches your order needs, across how many distilling days, and what is left for you in retail.

We do not hand out the price structure anonymously. Company, name, email and phone — then the calculator opens straight away, and the link reaches you by email for later.

Open the calculator
Contact

Send a no-obligation enquiry

Tell us briefly what you have in mind. We will reply within 48 hours with a concrete quote.

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Reply within 48h No spam, no sharing NDA on request

Need to present the project internally? The two-page overview summarises process, audiences, equipment and price.

Overview as PDF (2 pages)

Larger project? The concept form asks about botanicals, flavour profile, bottle, closure, label and packaging in detail. A confidentiality agreement to sign is included.

Open concept form as PDF