Kerryn Ash

Giving the world an extraordinary gin!

The Garden Distillery was started from a love of gardens, fresh food and a G&T. Our aim is to handcraft an extraordinary gin using native garden botanicals and an amazing, innovative process. We are offering you a chance to purchase the very first batch of an Australian Cold Distilled Gin!

Our Garden Distillery is a labour of love with many of our botanicals grown in our garden or sourced locally and distilled in our garden shed. 

Nature and science combine to show us the slow and unhurried path to distilling, allowing us to showcase the fresh, aromatic flavours of our Australian garden and to create extraordinary gins.

Cold Distillation is a fun process, which gives us the ability to experiment and craft new and exciting gin profiles.

As an urban garden we always look to have sustainable practises to ensure our future.

Cold Distillation Technique

Cold distillation is an all senses way to distill gin. Each botanical is macerated and distilled separately because we have found they all have unique and interesting characteristics that we want to enhance. The colours of the macerating botanicals go from a rich purple of the pepperberries to a vibrant yellow of the oranges. When we distill the botanicals we use a vacuum to lower the boiling point which allows the botanicals to be gently distilled enabling the flavour profiles to stay in tact and the freshness to be incorporated into the gin. The taste of the individual botanicals are so distinct and flavoursome that they really do shout out and want to be heard. The botanicals produce such varied aromas that it makes for a fun and exciting process. After distillation the botanicals are rested for a few days to let their flavours mature and then they are blended together and bottled at 42%ABV.

Our Craft Gin

We are excited to bring you our first limited edition batch of Bayside Dry Gin, created and distilled in Bayside Melbourne. We thought what better way to celebrate all that is Melbourne by including citrus into the gin, is there a Melbourne garden that doesn't have a citrus tree? In fact the fresh orange peels used in batch 1 are actually picked from my garden, hand peeled and distilled straight away. We also pay homage to Melbourne's aromatic and spicy cuisine by having a long lingering spicy finish to round out our gin. There are 10 Botanials in our Bayside Dry Gin the classics being Juniper, Coriander, Orris Root and Cardamon, with fresh Orange and Grapefruit peels, and Australian Botanicals of Lemon Myrtle, Desert Lime, Cinnamon Myrtle and Mountain Pepperberries.

Now for this campaign we would like to honour our great grandmother someone who embraced adventure with grace and determination. Winifred Isabel, who was in her early twenties, a new bride and pregnant set sail from New Zealand to Uganda just over 100 years ago. She set up a garden business on the shores of Lake Victoria that sold gladiolus flowers to the local hotel industry. She instilled in the women of our family a love of gardens and an adventurous spirit which is evident in our gin today.

You can support us by buying a bottle or purchasing one of the cocktail packages The funds raised will be going towards purchasing a 100l still that would be named after our great grandmother 'Winnie' so I invite you to come on this journey with us and enjoy the fresh, just picked flavour of Bayside Dry Gin.

We have set up a 3 tier stretch target which allows us to adjust the releases of batch 1 throughout the campaign. We have a total of 700 bottles that are bottled and ready for purchase.

We would like to purchase a 100l rotary evaporator glass still which would allow us to increase production and to distibute Australia wide. 

Our 3 tier approach works by setting our first target at $20000 and then having 2 stretch targets during the campaign so sell all 700 bottles of batch 1.

This really is a great opportunity to get a bottle of the first batch of cold distilled gin handcrafted in Australia and in turn you help a small local distillery expand into the Australian market so more Australians can enjoy the fresh aromas of Cold Distilled Australian Craft Gin.

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Our website thegardendistillery.com.au gives you further information about all distilling adventure so check it out.

Legal requirements

WARNING

Under the Liquor Control Reform Act 1998, it is an offence to supply, or to obtain on behalf of, alcohol to a person under the age of 18 years. (Penalty exceeds $19,000) Its an offence for a person under the age of 18 years to purchase or recieve liquor therefore all delivers of Bayside Dry Gin must be received and signed for by a person over the age of 18 years. (Penalty exceeds $800)

Victorian Licence Name: The Garden Distillery Pty Ltd

Victorian Liquor Licence: 90144070

Due to licensing restrictions we are unable to ship Bayside Dry Gin internationally.