Tastings, Blending and Brewery Sessions
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A half-day gin workshop, a whisky tasting and a cocktail class are the three hosted experiences at South Coast Distillery on Drummond Street. Barrels and stills share the room with the cellar door bar at this Mount Saint Thomas craft distillery, which uses Illawarra and coastal ingredients in its gin, vodka, liqueurs and whisky.
Inside the gin-making workshop:
Allow about four hours for the workshop, with lunch and gin and tonics served along the way. Experiences start From $99 per person, and most public dates are on Saturday afternoons.
Everyone leaves with a labelled 700mL bottle of the gin they designed with a distiller and saw distilled in a glass still.
Yes. A lunch matched to gin and tonics is served while the roughly four-hour workshop runs.
The tasting explains how whisky is made and pours five nips of Australian craft whisky, served with palate-cleansing snacks.
Private sessions can be arranged on Fridays by emailing the events team, and the bar can be hired for functions on a minimum spend with no room fee.
