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Barley or bust: New King Island whisky and gin distillers go with the grain
It was a relaxed night in spring a few years ago and King Island farmer Thomas Shaw was having a beer and chatting with neighbour Vaughan O’Connor when Mr O’Connor announced the island needed a distillery.
Key points:
- The distillers are relying on a crop uncommon on King Island due to the wetter climate
- The hopeful distillers have had an ageing header shipped to the island
- The entrepreneurs say they are committed to a whisky they won’t release for 12 years
“And I said, ‘Woah, don’t get me started,'” Mr Shaw recalls.
“I’ve probably been talking about it for five or six years too long now.”
Mr Shaw said he had dreamed of opening a…
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