Kinglake Distillery
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Brand Journey
Kinglake is Different
Kinglake was always a strange and wild place. Steep muddy roads and dense, towering gum-trees made it all but impossible to reach. Goldmines, timber mills, tramways and even people have all been swallowed up by the great forests. Local legend tells of strange creatures that hide in the woods.
So is the Whisky
Kinglake Whisky is made with the distillery doors open. Nature influences every stage of the process, from the unfiltered mountain spring water to the local pollen and yeast. The result is a whisky that could only be made in Kinglake.
Certified Carbon Neutral Status
Love of whisky and a beautiful property in Kinglake were the foundations of Kinglake Distillery, no electricity was just another problem that needed to be worked through during the set-up process. However, over the last four years we’ve not only become more aware of how integral the natural environment is to our whisky but also how important it is for everyone to take individual responsibility for it.
Now, with a decent amount of whisky ageing and sales taking off, we looked at how we want to develop. We realised to be a brand that we’re proud of and that customers can love we needed to do more to look after the planet.
We got very excited by the plan of building a solar farm to power the whole distillery but after working through the numbers with an electricity guru, we began to appreciate just how much energy it takes to boil liquid. The batteries alone would cost more than the entire set up cost of the distillery and we quickly gave up the idea.
But over the coming weeks we realised having woken our conscience, neither of us were now comfortable doing nothing. Although boiling a Still our size with solar electricity was prohibitive, there were many areas we could improve and we also looked more deeply into how to offset carbon footprint.
We got very excited by the plan of building a solar farm to power the whole distillery but after working through the numbers with an electricity guru, we began to appreciate just how much energy it takes to boil liquid. The batteries alone would cost more than the entire set up cost of the distillery and we quickly gave up the idea.
But over the coming weeks we realised having woken our conscience, neither of us were now comfortable doing nothing. Although boiling a Still our size with solar electricity was prohibitive, there were many areas we could improve and we also looked more deeply into how to offset carbon footprint.