Whisky Facts Articles
Jun 4, 2025
From Gold to Grain – Pastures, Potatoes and Pot-Stills
410 O’Grady’s Road, Kinglake Central is a 50-acre hideaway nestled at the edge of the Kinglake State Forest, down a q...
May 22, 2025
Who is Kinglake Distillery?
Sam Lowe and Chantal Daniels
Sam:- “Among the many jobs that need doing in a small, two-person distillery, I make the...
May 7, 2025
How can Australia ever hope to take on Scotland at Single Malt?
It’s not enough just to be Australian. To set the single malt world alight our whisky needs to blow the doors off! Ki...
Apr 29, 2025
The Angel’s Share – A necessary evil.
No distiller loves losing whisky but it’s an important party of the ageing process.
"Angel’s share" is a term used to...
Apr 22, 2025
To really control the taste of a whisky a distillery needs to make a good brew first!
Yeast is one of only three ingredients allowed when making single malt and is responsible for converting sugar into a...
Jul 9, 2022
Why is Australian single malt expensive and will it change?
With their arrival on the world whisky map in 2014, Sullivan’s Cove showed the potential of Australian single malt h...
Nov 29, 2021
What is the difference between single malt and blended whisky?
To be correctly termed single malt, a whisky must be made from 100% malted barley, exclusively at one distillery.
How...
Sep 10, 2021
Certified Carbon Neutral Status – Why did we decide to pursue this and what does it really mean?
Love of whisky and a beautiful property in Kinglake were the foundations of Kinglake Distillery, no electricity was j...
Jun 11, 2021
The four stages of making whisky
The actual distillery itself is only one of four very important stages in the process of making single malt. Each of ...
Jun 11, 2021
How Single Malt is made - The Cuts
What do distillers mean when they talk about the cuts?
Distilling is simply boiling and a still is a big kettle. Most...