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Based in Wyong in NSW Central Coast, Inspirited Bitters began as a father-and-son weekend hobby over two decades ago. Today, it has grown into a distillery dedicated to paying homage to our Australian origins, crafting each bottle with native botanicals that capture the spirit of this land.
Here's some of our favourite drinks!
Summer's calling, and Lemon, Lime & Bitters answers. It's an Aussie classic made with Convict Aromatic Bitters, and it's exactly what you reach for when you want something light and refreshing. Mixing for one or making for a crowd, this drink just works.
A bright and zesty spritz with smooth tequila and a citrusy lift from Heidi’s Orange Bitters.
Rich chocolate liqueur and Heidi’s Orange Bitters topped with whipped cream for a decadent treat.
True blue Aussies share the good stuff with their mates.
We’ve teamed up with ours to craft recipes worth sharing with you.
Don Giovanni is a Melbourne maker of small batch Italian style liqueurs and gin. It started with a family friend named Teresa, whose home made Limoncello was so good that Umberto’s son set out to make a version worth sharing beyond the kitchen table. The range now runs to Limoncello, Mandarino, Blood Orange and a Classic Gin, and the trophy shelf keeps filling up, including Australia Limoncello of the Year 2024. Together we built the Italian Convict, a bright Australian spin on the Scofflaw that lands right between sweet and tart. Don Giovanni’s citrus liqueur does the heavy lifting and a dash of our bitters ties it off. It is the kind of drink you make on a warm afternoon and then make again. What we love here is the obsession. Countless trips to Southern Italy to get one Limoncello right is our kind of stubborn. Good company for a bottle of bitters.
Maidenii is the boutique Australian vermouth that turns up on the back bar of nearly every good room in the country. It came together when former Gin Palace bartender Shaun Byrne met French winemaker Gilles Lapalus, and the two set about fusing native botanicals like strawberry gum, wattle seed and river mint with quality Victorian wine. They even wrote the book on it, literally, with The Book of Vermouth. Their Sweet Vermouth, built with the Negroni in mind, anchors two drinks: the Negroni Down Under, an orange led, bittersweet all Australian negroni, and the Mountinez, a smooth and dry take on the Martinez. A bartender and a winemaker chasing the same thing from two directions. That meeting of craft and produce is exactly what gets us excited.
Seppeltsfield Road Distillers is the work of Jon and Nicole Durdin, a gin loving couple in the Barossa Valley, less than an hour from Adelaide. Their gins lean bright, fresh and full flavoured, with a Barossa Shiraz Gin that drinks bold and unmistakably local. The cellar door is worth the drive, with Friday knock offs and a gin and gourmet fudge tasting on offer. We built two drinks together. Rubies on the Rocks stacks sweet, tart and herbal, with their Barossa Shiraz Gin, lemon and our Convict Bitters chosen to balance rather than to dazzle. The Golden Outback is all floral sweetness, bright lemon and gentle spice, genuinely the bee’s knees. Two makers who taste and tweak until a drink simply works. That is how we like to build things too.
Australian Distilling Co. is all about the moments that make this place tick: a gin and tonic in a Melbourne laneway, a martini above Bondi, a negroni against an Adelaide vineyard. Their range maps the country, with city gins from Fremantle to Sydney plus vodka and a single malt whisky, and they have the trophies to back the claim of Australia’s most awarded distillery. They have even taken their gin to altitude with Qantas. We worked their gin into two warm weather drinks. The Summer Haze is smoky, light and refreshing, the sort of thing to whet the appetite. The Convict Cooler is fruitier and built to cool a convict down on a hot day, gin and bitters doing exactly what they should. Two outfits chasing the same thing here: a properly good Australian drink, no fuss. Easy partners.
