Bakery Hill Distillery :: Australian Single Cask, Single Malt Whisky

If golf is your thing and you don’t mind a quiet wee dram, why not come with me to Scotland on a personally guided tour of the highlands.
I’ve teamed up with IntAir Corporate travel in Hawthorn for the ultimate whisky and golf extravaganza.
Commencing in early October and lasting 19 days or 21 days with the optional Dubai stopover the tour which I have personally structured will visit distilleries and sights not normally open to the public.
Flying Emirates, we will arrive in Glasgow to commence the trip of a lifetime.
From Glasgow we travel by coach past Loch Lomond and then by ferry to the very heart of the peated malt country, Islay, where we will call the village of Bowmore home for 3 days. Personalized tours of Laphroaig, Ardbeg, Bowmore, Caol Illa and Bunnahabhan just to name a few are included.

After nearly 12 month in the design and testing phases the long overdue brewery commenced to be installed at the distillery this week.

It was decided late last year to incorporate a brewery at the distillery so the entire process was under the “one roof”. By doing this issues such as production scheduling and quality control could be more careful monitoring and adjusted where necessary.

Demand for our malts has been so great from both local and overseas outlets that unless we wished to continue rationing supplies drastic measures were needed. Production will be ramped up when the brewery is completed and commissioned in about 5 weeks.

The first of the vessels, two 2000 litre fermenters built by Hart to Hart Fabrications in Dandenong Victoria were carefully lifted into position. The mash tun and kettle are expected in about 4 weeks and with 2 weeks commissioning, we should be in full production towards the end of April.

As one of the major focal points to the Whisky Convention, the Maxxium Group (The macallan, and Highland Park to name two) proposed that they would be very happy to initiate a perpetual trophy to be presented to the producer of the best Australian Single Malt Whisky.

All the malt whiskies were judged and Bakery Hill Distillery was declared the grand champion Mr. Andrew Skeen presented the trophy to David Baker (Distiller and Owner) at Fideles, Crown Casino.

As the whisky convention is scheduled for August 2007 we look forward to defending the trophy.