Sharing gin with the people of Adelaide
If you head to Prohibition Liquor Co on Gilbert Street, you’re in for a real experience.
Adam Carpenter and Wes Heddles have been distilling gin right in the heart of the city since 2015 and their southwest hub keeps growing.
Not only can you see the gin production from the Prohibition Tasting Room, they now have a cocktail bar next door, aptly named ‘Next Door’ and they recently have started serving coffee at Bootleg, all on the same premises.
Opening Next Door was about celebrating the great spirits being produced here in South Australia.
“People come into Prohibition and see the production in full flight, they really connect with the whole process and see it from the raw ingredients to what comes out of the still,” Wes said.
“We love what we produce, but we also love what the rest of South Australia is producing as well and our own tasting room was filled with many of our competitors spirits.
“So, we took all those bottles and spirits Next Door and the Tasting Room became the Prohibition Tasting Room and the cocktail bar has over 200 different spirits.
“To be able to have that experience in the CBD, it’s great.”
Adam and Wes believe starting the coffee side of the business has been one of the best things they’ve done.
“It’s our customer the whole way through, from 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM, so we’re able to take our customers and our friends along the journey, they can have a coffee with us in the morning and a gin with us at night-time or lunch,” Adam said.
“Some of our biggest gin fans experience us for the first time tasting the coffee.
“The education piece around gin can start in the morning, we’ve had people while waiting for the coffee, they’ll walk out the back and see Hugh our distiller running the still and next things they’ve had a whole gin lesson before 9:00 AM, it’s a real experience.
“That’s what it’s all about for us, sharing our gin with people.”
Listen to Adam and Wes chat more about their business and hear them make a cocktail live on air in the Experience Adelaide podcast.
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