Lind and Lime Gin Distillery.

Lind and Lime Gin Distillery

The tour ends with you bottling it and then drinking it.1

Why go

It opened on Coburg Street in May 2022 as the gin half of a long Leith bet by Ian Stirling and Paddy Fletcher, the pair behind Port of Leith Distillery, and it runs on entirely green electricity.1 By July 2023 the trade press had it at more than 6,000 visitors to its tasting, bottling and cocktail-making tours, forecasting fifteen thousand a year.1 The evidence that the gin is a working spirit rather than a gift-shop bottle comes from the other side of the bar: reviewing Bryson in Leith, Gaby Soutar orders the Leith Sunshine Punch, with Lind & Lime Gin, pineapple, strawberry, lemon and fizz.2

Good to know

• Address: 24 Coburg Street EH6 6HB.3
• Booking: the visit is a scheduled tour, so book rather than turn up.1
• Price: nobody publishes a current tour price.
• Hygiene: Food Hygiene Information Scheme Pass, inspected 21 May 2026, FHRSID 1649390. Three months old. It is filed as a manufacturing premises, so it rates the production floor rather than the tasting room.3
• Pair it with: Port of Leith Distillery, the same owners' whisky project a few minutes away.
• Searching the hygiene register: filed as Lind & Lime Distillery, with an ampersand and no Gin.3

Verdict

could-visit — The gin arm of the Port of Leith Distillery operation, in a purpose-built site on Coburg Street since May 2022, run by the same two people. What makes it worth an hour is that the tour is a working one: tasting, bottling and cocktail-making rather than a walk past a still, and it was pulling six thousand visitors a year within fourteen months of opening. The gin itself is on Edinburgh drinks lists that a critic actually orders from, which is the honest evidence that it is a working spirit and not a souvenir. Could-visit, and a natural pairing with the whisky distillery up the road.