The beer you've been waiting for. Keeps your taste satisfied while keeping your senses sharp. An all-day IPA naturally brewed with a complex array of malts, grains & hops. Balanced for optimal aromatics & a clean finish. The perfect reward for an honest day's work & the ultimate companion to celebrate life's simple pleasures. ...

Get ready to bask in the glory of the frothy head's floral bouquet. Relish the citrus accents from the abundance of dry hopping. This one's sweet, yet balanced. Malty undertones shake hands with the hop character for a finish that never turns too bitter. ...

So good it's almost wrong. Dark ruby in colour & brewed with seven varieties of imported malts. Complex in finish, with hints of smoke & peat, paired with a malty richness & a right hook of hop power to give it the bad attitude that a beer named Dirty Bastard has to live up to. Ain't for the wee lads. ...

When pouring this into a glass there is an immediate aroma in the room of preserved citrus, crushed coriander & an awesome ginger character. Lifted French oak sits really nicely in balance with the botanical characters, & the line of spice has continued to build from Solera No_3. The texture is just so soft & the oak props everything up. Solera No_4 is rich, complex & bloody drinkable. To create Barrel Aged Gin, the first batch is distilled distill in Four Pillars CARL still using the same botanicals as their Rare Dry Gin. Then they transfer the gin into a solera of nine French oak chardonnay barrels, each with a subtly different character. Every six months, Cameron tastes each barrel & then blends a portion of each to create this complex, nuanced & entirely too sippable gin. Solera No_2 was released in late 2014, & went on to win a Gold Medal at the 2015 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. A year later the distillery are releasing Solera No_4, deeper & more complex than the last releases. & this will be the last blend from our original nine barrels (now that they have the space they have a number of new 'old barrels' to add to the solera system). ...

Aromatically it has fresh pine needles, citrus & spice, & a clear peppery, dense raspberry character. The palate is lovely & sweet with a long juniper & spice character on the finish. Recently featured in The Sunday Times Magazine, Bloody Shiraz is a sweet, violet elixir that is steeped for eight weeks with freshly picked shiraz grapes, this near full strength gin (37.8% abv) is sweet & luscious & unlike anything on the world gin market. In Australia, the entire production sold out in two months. ...

The addition of finger limes & fresh ginger during the distillation process highlight Asian spices like coriander & star anise. Finally, fresh turmeric adds a fresh but earthy quality, not unlike dill, & weight to the palate. The resulting gin has lifted aromatics of lime curd, pine needles & fragrant spices with a vanilla character which pulls the spices together. The palate is intense
- sweet & juicy
- but it is still very clean.

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It is spicy but with great citrus aromas & flavours. The cinnamon & star anise add rich fruitcake tones, the Tasmanian pepperberry leaf provides warmth rather than heat, & the lemon myrtle is a beautiful alternative to lemon peel. The highly aromatic oranges support the spicier botanicals. A strikingly pure gin, so pure in fact that it can be drunk chilled & on its own. ...

Sip it neat over ice or try it in a Tuxedo, a classic cocktail made with gin, Sherry & orange bitters. The addition of a tiny amount of Spanish Amontillado Sherry has added some length & sweetness to the final gin. The Sherry cask solera is made up of 42 ex-Sherry barrels from a friend of the Four Pillars distillery who happens to make famous Australian fortified wines. Theyre much older than their Chardonnay barrels, varying in age from 15 to 35 years old. These barrels were first filled more than a year ago, & this is the first solera release taken only from the bottom row of barrels. The barrels are never emptied
- a small portion from each barrel is taken out, which is then replenished from the row above. Fresh gin is only ever put into the top row of barrels creating a traditional solera system. Slightly deeper in colour, this is a rich, intense & layered barrel-aged gin. A pine needle quality underpins some amazing complexity. The residual Sherry character has integrated beautifully with the deeper cassia & star anise flavours
- think dried fruits & nuts.

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Four Pillars Spiced Negroni Gin is a highly aromatic, rich & (yes) spicy gin with great power & intensity. First, they took their base botanicals & upped the amount of Tasmanian pepperberry leaf & cinnamon. Then they added an exotic West African spice called Grains of Paradise; one of the most unusual spices in the world, with clove & Sichuan characters. But although very powerful, the spice tends to glow rather than become hot. They also decided to use local, organic blood oranges in the botanical basket, as well as some ginger. These wonderfully fragrant fresh botanicals help lift the spice to another level. Finally, they opened up the plates to add weight & intensity to the gin. Four Pillars Spiced Negroni Gin was the first in their Bartender Series of gins. It was the result of a conversation in 2014 between the Four Pillars Distiller & one of Australias top bartenders, Jason Williams. Together they wanted to create a gin specifically for the Negroni something to cut through the Campari & vermouth. As the Negroni has always been a favourite at Four Pillars, Cameron jumped at the chance to make the first collaboration in their Bartender Series a tribute to the very definition of a perfectly balanced cocktail. ...

A premium Single Barrel Bourbon with a taste you'll want to savour again & again. Complex, full bodied & surprisingly smooth with a long finish that's unbelievably mellow. Sold only in Europe. A classic Bourbon. Very long. Very sweet. Very elegant.
- Michael Jackson Best American Whiskey Under 10 years Old.
- Whisky Magazine 2005 Best of Best Awards Master Distiller's Mellow Choice: It's a single barrel so it's too complex, full-bodied & mellow to drink any way but straight up or on the rocks. Find a comfortable chair, or a hammock under a tree, pick up a guitar (heck, even if you don't play) & have a mellow moment by yourself, or invite someone over & enjoy a sip or two with a friend.
- Jim Rutledge


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