All laundromats are depressing. Even nice laundromats on the 45th floor of a hotel on a stylish street in Sydney, Australia is depressing. I've been in Australia for a smidge over two months now and finally found a laundromat on the top floor of my hotel and finally...
Every distillery has a secret. Not a scary secret, but that thing that sets them apart, and there is a distillery up in the Adelaide Hills that has a doozy. Paul Shand. And I’ve just named him The Wizard of Drams because I get to do that sort of thing. He started life...
Big MacWhisky vs. a single cask for 100. I’ll take the single cask. Would you rather have a Big Mac or a Waygu steak? The steak. Because real flavor comes from a place and a time. Nobody really knows where that Big Mac came from or what’s in it. No matter how much...
Everyone calls him Shandy. And that is a good explanation of the Australian distillers’ community. Everyone knows everyone else. It’s a small community, a few hundred people at most in the whole country, and they all know each other, and for the most part, like each...
When you talk to a whisky maker about his whisky, you get to taste it. The answer is always yes.https://youtu.be/R_6ptt9A1To?si=mFtgl2j9jcPDis0D
Some whiskies exist because of boardroom decisions. But occasionally a whisky comes to be because two guys decided that making whisky would be more fun than delivering mail or making flagpoles. That would be The Tin Shed Guys. Ian Schmidt and Vic Orlow. They met while...
Ian Schmidt and Vic Orlow have built a great retreat from the hectic life up in the Adelaide Hills called Tin Shed Distillery. They make great food and great whiskies, rums and a lot more. The story of how they got started is pretty unique too....
Should a Tasmanian distillery have spectacular views? Doesn't hurt. Should a Tasmanian distillery grow its own barley and raise its own lamb and beef for the cafe? Doesn't hurt. Should a Tasmanian distillery have a 200-year-old waterwheel flourmill on site? Again,...