THE SHOP
our SPIRITS
Our multi award-winning tiny distillery is nestled in the rolling green hinterland of Australia’s pristine Sapphire Coast.
All our spirits are sustainably created using old-school artisan methods and feature ingredients that we either grow here at the distillery or forage locally. As part of our commitment to reducing the distillery's carbon footprint we use locally grown Australian juniper in two of our gins, with plans to transition our entire range to local juniper over the next 12 months.
And as one of the smallest commercial distilleries in Australia, we’re happy to say that all our spirits really are handcrafted in small batches.
CELLAR DOOR
Open Saturdays & Sundays
12pm to 5pm
With its old-world vibe and beautiful country views, our dog-friendly cellar door offers customers a place to relax and unwind. We have a great selection of cocktails for you to choose from, including house-made sodas for the drivers and beer, wine and bubbles for the non-spirit drinkers.
All our seating is outdoors, but if the weather is fine and the sun is shining there’s no better place to be.
We're very happy for you to bring your own nibbles to enjoy with drinks purchased from the bar. However, as a very small venue (30 person max) please understand that we are not a public picnic facility.
Bookings are highly recommended and can be made by calling 0448294210.
Please note we are a cashless venue and, as a working farm and distillery, we’re primarily 18+.
GIN SCHOOL
Grab your bestie or a group of friends and learn how to make your own bottle of gin with the crew from North of Eden Gin!
Perfect for friends, families or a group of work colleagues, our Gin School may be the naughtiest school in town, but it will still teach you everything you need to know about the dark arts of distillation.
Create your own gin recipe from our pantry of delicious botanicals, before using one of our gorgeous copper stills to transform your ingredients into a bespoke bottle of gin to take home with you.
And because we know it's thirsty work coming up with a new gin recipe, we'll keep your spirits up with a few complimentary gin and tonics and some local nibbles over the course of your three hour class.
OUR STORY
Established in 2018, North of Eden Distillery is located on Stony Creek Farm, a 12 acre smallholding nestled in the hinterland of Australia's pristine Sapphire Coast.
We are a small, independent family run business with a total of three fulltime (human) employees, two distillery dogs, four highland cows and a few chooks.
Our ethos has always been to create spirits that reflect this beautiful part of Australia we call home. It was also important to us to create a business that "treads lightly" and operates as sustainably as possible.
Marrying those twin objectives, we consciously craft all of our spirits to use as much locally available and seasonal produce as we can. This includes using juniper grown less than 100kms from the distillery.
With a tiny production capacity, we never set out to be the biggest distillery in Australia. Our aim was simply to create the best spirits we could using largely forgotten craft production methods.
As part of that desire to rediscover old-school craftsmanship at a sustainable scale, we decided very early on in our journey to use really old technology to make our spirits. And by really old we're talking roughly 1200 years old.
There are undoubtedly faster and easier ways to make spirits, but our choice of technology, combined with our approach to sourcing our ingredients, allows us to make truly small batch, handcrafted spirits in a way that very few other commercial distilleries do.
The distillery operates on Djiringanj land and we respectfully acknowledge their ongoing custodianship of the land and pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging.
