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Distiller’s Notes
Explore insights into our whisky, distilling process, sustainability, and the wild landscape that inspires every bottle.
What Were We Thinking?
When Chantal and I started Kinglake Distillery, we sold our houses, gave up our jobs, borrowed from our families and ...
The True Cost of Making Whisky
When we started Kinglake, we had a rather romantic idea that we'd run the entire distillery on solar power. Reality a...
How Three Ingredients Become Hundreds of Flavours?
Green apples, pineapple, honey, vanilla, smoke, leather, chocolate, even damp earth. The diversity of flavour you can...
The Ingredient That Makes Whisky Possible
Every bottle of whisky owes its existence to a tiny living organism that most people never think about. In fact, with...
Gold, Leeches and the Water Behind Our Whisky
Every distillery has a story behind its water source. Ours just happens to involve gold miners, bush tramways, leeche...
Decisions we’re making right now - Are We Cutting Too Deep?
One of the biggest decisions a distiller makes isn't what goes into the mash—it's what gets left behind during distil...
Why Single Malt Whisky?
Why did we choose to make single malt whisky rather than gin, vodka or another spirit? The answer has everything to d...
Life off-grid
Most people assume an off-grid distillery is a romantic lifestyle choice. The reality is that it affects almost every...
Two People, One Distillery
People often ask how we ended up building a whisky distillery in Kinglake. The answer begins many years earlier, in t...
How Australia's climate affects whisky maturation.
When people talk about Australian whisky maturing faster than Scotch, they're usually talking about climate. But what...
The Fermentation Mystery
Ever since we started making whisky in 2018, I've had a fermentation problem that appears without warning and then ...
DISTILLER'S DIARY - 21ST APRIL 2026
We are 100% off-grid at Kinglake Distillery and for electricity we use a combination of generator and solar power.
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