WHISKY 500ml

Okay, we are not your normal whisky distillery.

For us a bottle of whisky has always been a vessel in which you explore aroma, flavour and intensity.

For over 18 months (before our distillery even opened), Carrie and I experimented with over 20 different yeasts, searching for the flavours and aromas that we felt represented us and the spirit we aspired to make. From importing fresh yeasts from Portland Oregon, to 500 year old farmhouse yeasts from Belgium, we were on a journey of adventure. We had yeasts that exploded from the top of the fermenters making a mess that took us hours to clean up, and yeasts that let us down dismally with hardly a gurgle, but all the while, providing flavour choices we could make.  We could not have even started the journey without the wonderful barley grown by our biodynamic farmers Steve and Tania Walter. In the early days we would hook up our trailer nicknamed 'The Big Green Monster" and we would drive 5 hours to their farm in the Wimmera region. We were always greeted with a smile and an invite to join them for lunch were we were nourished with freshly baked bread and soups made from their own grains and pulses. We were then loaded up with a one tonne bulka bag of barley that we drove to our maltster in Ballarat, who loaded us up with the batch he had malted form the previous trip. All up it would be a 14 hour round trip that we did consistently for the first 3 years. As we always say, it's really hard to do the right thing.

We have been ageing our first batch of spirit in four different barrels, for four and a half years. These first four Whisky's are bottled at cask strength. All of the barrels we imported ourselves, from the USDA Certified Organic, Journeyman Distillery, located in 3 Oaks Michigan, USA. 

Barrels No.1 and No.3 are ex-Feather Bone Bourbon made by the same cooperage, filled and disgorged by Journeyman at the same time and filled by us, at the same time, with the same spirit. They have sat side by side together in the distillery on the same rack...yet they both taste different. Go figure, this is a wonderful odyssey we are on.

Barrel No.4 is an ex-Not A King Rye, a mix of George Washington's original recipe using Rye, Corn and Barley.

Barrel No.5 is an ex-Last Feather Rye, a specialty of Journeyman Distillery, notes of fruit and spice, very unique in both flavour and intensity.

All four barrels were were filled in the same week, with the same, biodynamic barley, new make spirit. We can't wait to share the results with you. 

We credit $5.00 to your next purchase when you return your bottle to us.

Sustainability underpins every single drop of our handmade Vodka's, Gin's and Whiskey. We are completely "off grid" and use wind fallen timber from our property and a wood fired boiler to heat our stills. We grow our own botanicals and use water from our natural granite filtered spring to make our spirits.