AUSTRALIA

Rich and Lynn Spirits Pty Ltd

Rich and Lynn Spirits based in New South Wales, producer of handcrafted, small batch distilled, artisan Chinese Baijiu, Gin & Rum.

Winding Road Distilling Co. (New South Wales)
As with most new distilleries in Australia, Winding Road is a family affair located about 175km south of Brisbane, whose antecedents go back as far as 2014 when the husband-and-wife team of Mark and Camille Awad were casting around for something to do which would keep them in the more tourist-centric area of Northern Rivers in New South Wales (rather than moving to a bigger city where professional work was more plentiful). 

Killik Handcrafted Rum (Victoria) (mini bio)
Killik Handcrafted is a rum company now, but it didn’t originate that way. In fact, the original basis of operations way back in 2009 was a brewery (of sour beer) which was begun by the brothers Ben and Callum Pratt when they hadn’t even hit their twenties. For most of the next decade they slowly did research, visited other breweries, and learned about distillation. Their first love was indeed rum (and corn spirits) and beer was a stepping stone to that goal, allowing the development of expertise, and gaining of equity sufficient to start the distillery.