2023 has been a particularly busy yr for Hawkesbury spirit-crafters Karu Distillery. Since Hills to Hawkesbury Community News final talked with Karu in March, they've continued to rack up acclaim worldwide for their high-quality products.
Their world-class Morita Chipotle Vodka emerged as the solely real platinum spirit within the Infused/Flavoured Vodka class at the current Las Vegas Global Spirit Awards; their three other signature drinks additionally took house platinum scores. Their lately debuted Orsa Coffee Gin liqueur took residence Best Liqueur and Best in Show on the Tasting Australia Spirit, and the Distillery received a Hawkesbury Business Award and was a finalist in the Australian Women’s Small Business Champion Awards.
For KARU Delivering Quality Community Spirits , who founded the Distillery in 2018 together with her husband Nick, says this yr being Karu’s busiest up to now has also made it probably the greatest. She says: “We’ve taken on more workers, we’ve obtained a warehouse in Richmond now, we’re producing more spirits – and we’re capable of get back on the market after not being able to for thus long in the past four years!”
Orsa is another spirit from Karu that could only be made in the Hawkesbury, due to a collaboration with Darren Gerbasch’s Little Coffee Co within the Blue Mountains. “We met Darren at a tourism beverage trail assembly a few years ago, and he’s simply as enthusiastic about coffee as we are spirits. We approached him and we requested him to teach us a bit about espresso expertise. He made a custom brew for us, and it was two or three months of R&D from seriously getting began with it to where Orsa is right now.”
Karu Distillery Delivering Quality Community Spirits
Head distiller ally ayres with karu products and awards
Although the Karu group have been travelling all around the country and amassing awards on the international stage, they’ve continued to extremely worth the position of the group in their success. “Because Orsa was very much a collaboration of local businesses, it’s been well received by the neighborhood – and we like to do these sorts of issues,” says Ally. “It’s really cool that after the quantity of stuff the community and business has gone via the final couple of years, we’ve been able to get the spark again a bit and produce one thing that’s really a group spirit!”
Reflecting on the yr that’s passed by, Ally has been capable of finding a lot of joy among the many busyness. “We’ve had extra occasions than ordinary, extra distillation and ferment days, extra barrels than usual – and we’re having a real fun time with that. We’re getting again on the market and cementing Australia as a place of high quality and having the medals and trophies to prove that. It’s been really good!”
Ally, Nick and the Karu staff have been onerous at work creating loads of spirits for the holiday season, whereas also planning a selection of other merchandise for 2024. Keep updated with the world-class local Distillery right here: https://www.facebook.com/KaruDistillery
To hear extra from Ally about Orsa, regulate our website and Facebook for a video interview coming in the subsequent week.