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Backwoods Distillery & Jasper+Myrtle
A whisky & chocolate pairing WITH THE DISTILLER!
6:30pm - 6th September 2024
Midnight Hotel, Braddon
Cost: $119 - 139
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Whisky & chocolate - a classic combination!
Join Backwoods' co-founder and distiller, Leigh, this September as he comes to Canberra fresh from being crowned Victoria's champion distiller at the Australian Distilled Spirits Awards to chat with us as we go through an exceptional lineups of his whisky - from some early releases, to their current offerings, and a few special bottles of their famed Red Gum whiskies as well!
Backwoods Distilling Co. was founded by Leigh and Bree Attwood in 2017. Both were raised in North East Victoria, and returned to the region with their young family after years of city-living, working and travelling. A love of whisky, science and craftiness soon evolved into a dream to open a distillery. Backwoods Distilling Co. is the culmination of this dream. They are passionate about creating high quality spirits that vividly capture the flavours of Victoria’s High Country, and aim to put Victoria on the map as a premier craft spirits destination.
The true star of the distillery is their copper-pot still. ‘Stillvester’ is a one of a kind creation, built by Burns Welding and Fabrication in Griffith, NSW. Together, they purposefully designed the 1250L Stillvester to create a spirit that is both complex and refined.
Every time we do a whisky & chocolate pairing with him, attendees rave about the evening - so joining us once again is Peter Channels from Jasper+Myrtle with a small selection of their spectacular chocolates - with one carefully paired chocolate to accompany each whisky in the lineup.
Jasper+Myrtle hand craft their chocolate in their shop on Dairy Road in Fyshwick, and are fast becoming a Canberra institution! They ethically source their cocoa beans, creating lasting long-term relationships with the farmers that grow them - with Peter and his partner Li Peng regularly visiting the farms to get to know not just the product, but the people too.
Jasper+Myrtle chocolates contain no artificial colours, flavours, or preservatives - with all the various flavours coming from natural ingredients.
The Whisky Lineup:
- Single Malt Batch 2: French Oak Wine Cask
- Single Malt Batch 8: Aperra & Aussie Corn Whiskey Casks
- Single Malt: Muscat Cask
- Single Malt: 2024 Red Gum Cask
- Rye Batch 2: American Oak Wine Cask
- Rye Batch 11: Stout Cask
- Rye: 2024 Red Gum Cask
A cheese & charcuterie platter is provided at in-person events. Please advise us via email if you have any allergies or dietary requirements that we need to be aware of.
This event is only for persons aged 18 years or older.
Transportation Whiskey: Meet the distiller!
6:30pm - 24th October 2024
Midnight Hotel, Braddon
Cost: $119 - 139
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MEET THE MAKER - In Person In Canberra From Tasmania
John came up last year for Whisky Capital, and Canberrans loved him & his whiskey! So this year we've brought him back again, and included him in several events throughout Canberra Whisky Week!
Come join John in-person at the Midnight Hotel for a full evening masterclass including half a dozen of his stellar whiskies as we drink and chat with the man who brought Pot Still whiskey distillation to Australia!
Transportation whiskey is the culmination of John Halton’s odyssey, a tribute to his ancestors from Ireland, some of whom received "transportation" during the mid-1800s, before settling in Cygnet, Tasmania. The distillery is named in reference to those English and Irish convicts who were sentenced to transportation. This involved travel from the British isles to Van Diemans land to serve 7 years of labour.
On one of his trips over to Ireland, John was at the Midleton Distillery, home of some of the worlds most revered single pot still whiskeys when a light bulb moment changed the course of his journey. He wondered why no one was making triple distilled, single pot still whiskey in Australia and went about changing that anomaly in good time.
After cutting his teeth in the Tasmanian whisky Industry, John started working on his dream of creating this Irish water of life, Tasmania’s versions of this iconic Irish style of whiskey and now it’s here, in all its Irish glory in very limited numbers.
A cheese & charcuterie platter is provided at in-person events. Please advise us via email if you have any allergies or dietary requirements that we need to be aware of.
The Lineup:
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A cheese & charcuterie platter is provided at in-person events. Please advise us via email if you have any allergies or dietary requirements that we need to be aware of.
This event is only for persons aged 18 years or older.
Distiller's Dinner
6:30pm - 25th October 2024
The Inn at Edgar's, Ainslie
Cost: $199 - 229
Tickets on sale now! →
Join us during Canberra Whisky Week for the ultimate intimate dinner with six Aussie distillers - ony 12 tickets total are available for this event!
The amazing folks at Edgar's will be serving us up a feast as we chat and drink with 6 Aussie distillers. With 1 distiller for every 2 diners, this is an intimate experience that you won't experience elsewhere this year in Canberra!
Each distiller is bringing a brand new release, or a yet to be released whisky for us to sample with paired courses of food from the Edgar's kitchen. With every guest sitting next to a distiller - get ready for a seriously good time chatting the night away with some legends of the Aussie whisky industry with a full dram from each distillery.
The Distillers:
- John Halton (Transportation Whiskey)
- Martin Pye (Riverbourne Distillery)
- Mark Newton (Snowy Mountains Spirits)
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The Fine Print:
This event is only for persons aged 18 years or older.
Photo and/or video recording of this event may occur.
If you have dietary requirements, please get in contact with us as early as possible.
Upcoming Flights
We've got a great selection of flights planned for the near future, with destinations including some favourite distilleries from Islay, and Speyside, in Scotland; a tour of Irish single casks, a meandering tour across Europe and Scandinavia, and some stunning sights from the United States of America.
We will also be taking off for some domestic destinations, where stories abound of the hard yakka that goes into setting up some of The New World's most loved distilleries - where we will try some of the boldest, meatiest, whiskies that have been slumbering away on this sunburnt country of ours!
Make sure your luggage is securely stowed, and your seatbelts are done up low and tight folks - some of these flights will be like none that have ever graced this beautiful capital of ours!