If you are thinking about starting your own distillery, or hope to gain skills in the art of distilling, what skills, competencies and background do you need to have? Its one of the questions we are asked frequently at The Academy. The good news is that, at the moment in…
Tasmania now has more than 30 whisky or gin distilleries. Our little island, with a land mass not dissimilar to Ireland has, a 10th the number of people and a very modern history of distilling. It some ways, we’d say it’s punching above its weight. While we’re still very new,…
We’re pleased to be heading to Queenstown and Strahan to talk about distilling in Tasmania. Currently on the coast, we have a collection of amazing little villages each, in their own way, providing a draw card for visitors to Tasmania. Could there be a new distillery for Tasmania’s West Coast?…
We’ve had a tremendous scoping trip in South Australia in the last week to look at what’s happening in the distilling world, how the new South Australian Distilleries are training, or planning to train, their people. Regency Tafe MicroBrewery Our first cab off the rank was the South Australian Tafe…