Notes

KARU Delivering Quality Community Spirits

2023 has been a particularly busy year for Hawkesbury spirit-crafters Karu Distillery. Since Hills to Hawkesbury Community News last talked with Karu in March, they have continued to rack up acclaim worldwide for his or her high-quality merchandise.
Their world-class Morita Chipotle Vodka emerged as the sole platinum spirit in the Infused/Flavoured Vodka category at the recent Las Vegas Global Spirit Awards; their three other signature drinks also took residence platinum rankings. Their recently debuted Orsa Coffee Gin liqueur took house Best Liqueur and Best in Show at the Tasting Australia Spirit, and the Distillery received a Hawkesbury Business Award and was a finalist within the Australian Women’s Small Business Champion Awards.


For Karu’s head distiller Ally Ayres, who based the Distillery in 2018 together with her husband Nick, says this yr being Karu’s busiest thus far has also made it probably the greatest. She says: “We’ve taken on extra staff, we’ve received a warehouse in Richmond now, we’re producing more spirits – and we’re in a position to get again on the market after not with the flexibility to for so lengthy up to now four years!”

Orsa is another spirit from Karu that might solely be made in the Hawkesbury, thanks to a collaboration with Darren Gerbasch’s Little Coffee Co within the Blue Mountains. “We met Darren at a tourism beverage trail meeting a couple of years ago, and he’s simply as captivated with espresso as we're spirits. We approached him and we requested him to teach us a bit about espresso experience. He made a customized brew for us, and it was two or three months of R&D from critically getting began with it to where Orsa is at present.”

Karu Distillery Delivering Quality Community Spirits
Head distiller ally ayres with karu merchandise 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 value the function of the neighborhood in their success. “Because KARU Delivering Quality Community Spirits was very much a collaboration of native businesses, it’s been properly received by the group – and we love to do these sorts of things,” says Ally. “It’s actually cool that after the amount of stuff the neighborhood and trade has gone via the final couple of years, we’ve been capable of get the spark again a bit and produce one thing that’s really a community spirit!”

Reflecting on the year that’s passed by, Ally has been able to find a lot of pleasure among the busyness. “We’ve had extra occasions than traditional, extra distillation and ferment days, more barrels than ordinary – and we’re having a real fun time with that. We’re getting back out there and cementing Australia as a spot of high quality and having the medals and trophies to prove that. It’s been actually good!”

Ally, Nick and the Karu team have been hard at work creating loads of spirits for the holiday season, whereas also planning a selection of other products for 2024. Keep updated with the world-class native Distillery here: https://www.fb.com/KaruDistillery

To hear extra from Ally about Orsa, regulate our web site and Facebook for a video interview coming within the subsequent week.



Here's my website: https://hillstohawkesbury.com.au/karu-distillery-quality-community-spirits/