Fever pitch

When the Corowa Distilling Co released their inaugural small batch of whiskey in August last year, all 320 bottles sold out in just 24 hours. This is not an uncommon story: such is the feverish enthusiasm for craft whiskey in Australia at the moment – and so good is the quality of many of the new whiskies emerging from small distilleries across the country – that supply simply cannot keep up with demand.

Corowa co-founder Dean Druce doesn’t see that demand