Local award-winning gin superstars Ambleside Distillery are standing alongside Adelaide’s favourite inner-city bars, to take you on a cocktail tour of the city- right from your home.
‘Alongside Ambleside’ is a premium range of six pre-batched cocktails from Roxies, Bank Street Social, Hains and Co. and Midnight Spaghetti as well as Ambleside’s own, delivered straight to your door.
The news on Sunday the 22nd of March that venues were to close due to the COVID 19 pandemic sent many into a spin, but Ambleside into action mode.
After a particularly challenging lead up to that date, due to the summer bushfires, the news that venues were to shut hit home pretty hard. Matt Dickson, Co-founder/Distiller at Ambleside Distillery began brainstorming the best way to help out his friends in the industry who had supported the brand through their venues.
Though pre-batched cocktails weren’t a completely new concept, the idea was to focus on industry collaboration and low financial and operational impact to already struggling venues. Ambleside has provided bottling to the venues, engaged local designer Black Squid for a cohesive look and feel, and will be selling and distributing the packs through their website.
“I just thought taking pre-batched cocktails to the next level and promoting collaboration through our industry, from supplier to the guys that serve our booze in bars, was a great way to build some morale… and hopefully inject a little bit of revenue into venues that had just been shut down. I mean it’s great that Australia acted fast and hard so that we are in a good position health-wise nationally now, but at the time it was a pretty daunting thing to face” said Matt.
The range features an ‘Elder Fashion’ from Bank St Social, ‘Gin Sour’ from Midnight Spaghetti, The Ambleside (grapefruit and sherbert), ‘Clarified Gin Milk Punch’ from Hains & Co., plus a ‘Rose Negroni’ and an ‘Espresso Martini’ from Ambleside. Available as singles (minimum purchase of 2 bottles). Each bottle contains two serves, or one very large single serve- if it’s been a hard day.
The range is on sale from today (7th May) at AmblesideDistillers.com or at the Ambleside Cellar Door- 1 Ambleside Rd, Hahndorf SA. Just in time to treat your Mum on Mother’s Day.
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