Kinglake Distillery is proudly off-grid, which means all the power for our distillery — and our new house! — comes from our all-singing, all-dancing 3-phase solar system. So, the best time to make whisky? When the sun’s shining.

On cloudy days, we lean more heavily on our trusty back-up generator. So in Kinglake, the weather doesn’t just shape the ageing and flavour of our single malt — it helps decide when we make it.

When I’m distilling, I’ve usually got one eye on our battery app and the other on live satellite weather maps!