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Mure Liqueurs – Foraging and distilling with Mat Follas

Name: Mure Liqueurs – Foraging and distilling with Mat Follas
Start: 2026-10-23T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-23T16:45:00+01:00
Location: Browns Hotel

Fri 23 Oct 2026 · 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm · Browns Hotel

Tastings

Chef, forager, restaurateur, author & distiller, Mat has much to share with us, including a nip of his wonderful liqueurs, some delicious cocktail & boozy desert recipes, and best tips on making sloe gin.

£15.00per ticket

Date

Friday 23 October 2026

Time

4:00 pm – 4:45 pm

Venue

Browns Hotel Dartmouth, United Kingdom

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Meet the presenter

Mat Follas

Drinks Expert

Mat won the TV series BBC MasterChef in 2009, then opened his first restaurant, The Wild Garlic, to considerable national acclaim. The Wild Garlic was awarded 2 AA Rosettes and was recommended in The Good Food Guide and The Michelin guide. In 2016, Mat opened Bramble Cafe in Poundbury, Dorset, followed by Bramble Restaurant in Sherborne, Dorset.

Mat is now focused on making some of the best liqueurs and spirits available from his distillery in Dorchester Dorset as well as running foraging days which end at the distillery.

Mat regularly runs Foraging courses and makes a range of liqueurs Mure Liqueurs. In 2024 Mat’s ‘Properly Bitter Lemon’ liqueur was awarded the highest rating, with a score of 98/100, for any lemon liqueur in the world by the international Wines and Spirits Competition. In 2025 his ‘Absinthe Bittergreen’ was rated in the top 3 in the world.
Mat has had three books published, Fish, Vegetables and Afternoon Tea (Waitrose Weekend’s Best Baking Book of 2018).

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