Work With Molly
From first botanical to final bottle.
Whether you're developing a new spirit, refining an existing liquid, solving a production challenge, or building the systems behind a growing brand, Troupe brings technical depth and sensory perspective to the work.
Practical expertise at the intersection of liquid, production, and strategy.
The Approach
The right solution starts with understanding the liquid.
Spirits development is rarely just a formulation problem. Ingredients, sensory goals, equipment, process, economics, and production realities all influence what ultimately reaches the bottle.
Troupe approaches those pieces together—bringing distilling, formulation, sensory, botanical, and operational experience to each stage of development and production.
Expertise
How we can work together.
Engagements can focus on a specific technical challenge or span a broader development process. Scope is built around what the spirit, production environment, and business actually require.
Gin Development
Develop a gin with a clear sensory identity and a formulation designed for real-world production. From botanical architecture through distillation strategy, the goal is a spirit that is distinctive, intentional, and repeatable.
- Botanical selection & architecture
- Recipe development & refinement
- Distillation strategy
- Sensory evaluation
- Bench & pilot development
- Production translation
Sensory & Botanical Strategy
Turn a creative idea into a defined sensory direction. Troupe uses both distilling and perfumery perspectives to understand aroma, flavor, botanical interaction, balance, and the choices that shape a spirit's identity.
- Sensory direction
- Botanical evaluation
- Aroma & flavor architecture
- Comparative tasting
- Formula refinement
- Product differentiation
Production Consulting
Bridge the gap between the intended liquid and the realities of making it. Support can focus on troubleshooting, process development, production consistency, scale-up, or the systems needed to make better liquid more reliably.
- Process development
- Production troubleshooting
- Scale-up strategy
- Quality & consistency
- Production workflow
- Technical documentation
Spirits Strategy
Make product and production decisions with the full picture in view. This work connects sensory intent, technical feasibility, positioning, production requirements, and the practical decisions involved in bringing a spirit to market.
- Product development planning
- Portfolio strategy
- Product positioning
- Technical feasibility
- Development roadmaps
- Production decision support
Need More Than a Project?
Fractional COO support.
Experienced operational leadership without adding a full-time executive.
For growing distilleries and spirits businesses that need ongoing leadership, Molly can work as an embedded operational partner—helping connect product, production, people, partners, and business priorities.
- Operations & production planning
- Vendor & partner coordination
- Product development oversight
- Process & systems development
- Cost & margin visibility
- Project leadership
- Cross-functional coordination
- Growth planning
Experience Behind the Liquid
Technical depth. Sensory instinct.
- 01 Award-winning distiller and blender
- 02 MSc Brewing & Distilling, Heriot-Watt University
- 03 Forbes 30 Under 30
- 04 Perfumery-informed approach to aroma and botanical development
- 05 More than a decade across spirits development and production
Start a Project
Let's make something worth tasting.
Tell me what you're working on, where you're getting stuck, or what you're trying to build. We'll start by determining what kind of support makes sense for the project.
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