A DISTILLER took marking Random Acts of Kindness Week one step further and gave out hundreds of bottles of wild elderberry elixir. Buck & Birch, based in Macmerry Industrial Estate and owned by Tom Chisholm and Rupert Waites, makes ready-mixed, bottled cocktails, elixirs and liqueurs. To mark Random Acts of Kindness Week, which ran from February 14 to 20, the business teamed up with FareShare Glasgow & The West of Scotland, and local care homes and charities, to donate hundreds of bottles of its elixir. Tom, director of Buck & Birch, said: “For millennia, elderberries have been used to minimise the risk of catching cold and flu, as well as alleviating the symptoms.