News – Waiheke Whisky

Visit us at The Heke

Visit us at The Heke

Our distillery is based at The Heke, a beautiful site with a restaurant, 2 bars, a function room and lots of space for kids, dogs and families. ...

Distillery Build Update 21/5/23

The barrel room, which will house our private casks, events and large tastings is now fully lined, with a great feature window showing the stills. ...

Condensers

The condensers. A bit more detail on the condensers and installation. These are shell and tube with externally mounted seal pots and vents. The co...

Distillery Build Update 24/4/23

The electric fire steam boilers are getting some attention this week. 3x 120 KW boilers are used to run the brewhouse and still house with a combin...

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...