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Reviews, Podcasts, Links and more!

We are getting out there now with our whisky, so we thought we would build a page that contains links to all our latest reviews, news and content ...

The spirit safe

The spirit safe is finally installed. The centre piece of the distillery, the spirit safe is both a historical and functional artefact, apart from ...

Distillery Build Update 6/12/22

The condensers are on. This was a huge geometry puzzle and Zane from Envoy did an outstanding job getting everything lined up. On our crazy pursuit...

Distillery build update 20/10/22

Things are starting to come together. We decided to use an aluminium gantry instead of a traditional steel one. Aluminium is one of the most enviro...

Building our HMI

In the tradition of doing it all yourself, we decided to make our own PLC and design the HMI to control the brewhouse and the stills. Because ownin...

Distillery build update 5/10/22

Today Raymond and his crane moved our stills into position on the slab. Ric worked his magic again, getting the stills over to the island in 2 high...

Our new stills are here.

If you have been following our progress over the last 12 years you will know we built our first set of stills, based around the principles of large...

Distillery build update 30/8/22

Here's a logistics question? How do you get 6 wash backs, 3 spirit recovery tanks, and a CIP unit to the island? The answer is to hire a barge!. Th...

Distillery build update. 27/7/22

What a wet and muddy site it is at the moment. Last weekend we moved the first of the brew house tanks onto the slab. The Hiab crane couldn't nego...

Distillery build update 18/7/22

The slab is in. 30 tonnes of reinforced concrete with channel drains, 300kw of power and water inset. Its been a wet few weeks and progress is sl...

NZ Peated Malt production. A tour in pictures.

Our peated malt comes from the Gladfield maltings in Dunsandel, Canterbury in the South of New Zealand. Doug and Gabbie, are a husband and wife tea...

Distillery build update 22/6/22

Here is the first photographic render of the distillery. It gives some idea of the scale of the new stills, and the building. It's 7m high and 30...

Evolution of our logo & brand identity.

At Waiheke Whisky, we love to talk about our story, what we stand for as a brand. We've had lots of time to think about things as we made whisky a...