We have a bird outside our bedroom window... I'm not sure what kind it is, but it insists on waking everyone around 5 in the morning. On week days it isn’t so bad as distilling begins early for us on these crisp winter mornings and once you’re up, you do see the best parts of [...]
Copper stills are gorgeous pieces of human technology. This beautiful metal has wonderful malleable qualities because of the structure of the atoms within it, enabling to it to be easily fashioned into desired shapes. In addition to its awesome thermal conductivity, I found out the reason copper is used is that it also has the [...]
If cooking is a passion, choosing the oven in your kitchen is a big deal. Baked items whether mains, deserts, snacks or sweet or savoury, your confidence in the outcome is based on how reliable the oven is and your familiarity using it. The same analogy can be drawn when choosing a still. However stills [...]
Little did we know when we moved to Goolwa 22 years ago how well situated it would be for whisky production and barrel aging. The great southern ocean moderates temperature and compared to Adelaide we always have fewer days of extremely hot weather. Overall this last summer for us was a cooler, wetter one. The [...]
