Distillery for Sydney CBD? Meet Hickson House Distilling

A podcast for lovers of wine, beer, liquor (incl. whisky, whiskey, bourbon, gin, vodka, tequila etc) and cocktails, Drinks Adventures hosts wine makers, brewing and distilling experts, sommeliers, bartenders & more.Distillery Hickson House is scheduled to open to the public before 2021 is out.Normally on this podcast, you're hearing from companies that have already been in operation for at least a few years or possibly much longer.In this case I'm making an exception to speak with the founders of a business that is still in planning.You may also like:Wine episodes on Drinks AdventuresHickson House Distilling is scheduled to open to the public in June 2021, and it's a significant project on a number of levels.It's a full-scale production distillery located in the historic Rocks precinct in the centre of Sydney.And then there's the profiles of its founders. Drinks industry veterans Mikey Enright and Julian Train are the team behind some Sydney's best small bars.They have The Barber Shop – renowned for its selection of more than 700 gins – and The Duke of Clarence, their incredibly authentic homage to an English pub.So it's safe to assume that the hospitality side of the project will be second to none.Mikey and Julian are joined on this project by distiller Tim Stones, most recently of Manly Spirits in Sydney.Tim learnt his craft alongside master distiller Desmond Payne at Beefeater Gin in London, who we met in season two of this podcast.Hickson House will be producing gins, aperitifs, whiskies and specialist spirits.But as you'll hear in this episode, some of the other details are still under wraps. I did what I could to get as much info as possible for you.Now, as there are more voices in this episode than we're accustomed to, it probably helps to tell you that Julian is the one with the Australian accent.But it's Mikey you'll hear from first up, giving you the background on how the project was first conceived.