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THE goodBAR In the heart of the Brookvale Arts District, Goodradigbee Distillers has arrived and opened the doors to The GoodBar, one of the coolest establishments to hit The Beaches in a very long time. Looking for top food, new drinks and total charm? Get yourself down there, pronto!
Ordinarily, spirits are matured in French or American oak barrels with traditional Scotch-whisky production methodology – a process that can take up to 10 years to achieve a flavoursome result.
From comfy Chesterfield lounges and stylish interiors, to smooth acoustic tunes and unbelievable spirits that are uniquely aged in native hardwood cubes, John has launched a hot local bar and a cool new drinks category to Australia.
John was on a ski trip drinking saké out of square wooden cups when he realised the surface area of a cube, compared with a barrel, is vastly significant. Amazed it hadn’t been done before, he began the trial and error process in 2018.
“Goodradigbee is the only distiller in the world using Australian hardwood cubes to make whisky and gin,” he says.
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Wanting to make something distinctively Australian by ageing spirits in native
hardwood cubes for months, not years, he created a sweet and complex taste that is anything but conventional. “What we’ve uncovered is a new spirits category through how we mature our single-malt spirits. Our business is not set and forget; we monitor and stir the liquids in cubes, a process that’s unique to Goodradigbee Distillers.”
Words: Samara Robertson Photography: Goodradigbee Distillers and Rob Edgren
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elcome to The GoodBar. Thanks to Founder and Chief Distiller, John O’Connor, the brand-new gin, whisky and cocktail bar in Brookvale is one of a kind.
