Frequently Asked Questions

Tash and Fuzz wanted a new adventure, a side hustle that could become the main gig in their transition to retirement.  Just B Distillery leverages their individual and collective strengths and enables them to explore a new industry.

Plan A was our corporate roles – Just B is our better plan for a life well-lived.  We have both embraced portfolio careers.

At festivals, our most popular gins are Pepper-Zest and Sloe & Mulberry.  That said, there is a legion of fans for all our gins and coffee liqueur.

Our distillery is in Mt Nelson, Tasmania. It’s part of our home, so we don’t have a public cellar door.

You can buy Just B gin and whisky on our website or via our stockists (see our stockists page).

Yes! We now have a steady supply of gin, including our Sloe and ever-popular Sloe & Mulberry gin.

Sloe, also known as Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), is a thorny hedgerow plant with dark purple berries. Sloe gin is popular in the United Kingdom, where people collect sloe berries from the hedgerows and add them to a bottle of shop-bought gin. Our sloe berries come from Westbury in northern Tasmania. We start with our London-dry gin and then steep the sloe berries for six months to enable the flavour to develop. The gin is then filtered three times before it’s bottled.

To make our Sloe & Mulberry gin, we add Tasmanian mulberries, the London-dry gin, and the sloe berries. The mulberries are juicy, and we balance their tartness with some sugar – they add a fruity note to the gin.

Well done! That’s the point. You want to be able to taste the almond notes that come from the sloe pip, just like when you add apricot stone kernels to the jam to improve the flavour.

Tasmanian native pepper berries are an iconic botanical that offer heat and a unique mouth feel. Our three core gins all have pepper berries in them, but to varying degrees. It’s worth trying Pepper-Rose and Pepper-Zest – you may be pleasantly surprised.

Pepper-Spice features fresh chilli and ginger, it has a warming heat rather than being ferociously hot. Fuzz de-seeds the long red cayenne chillis to remove some of the extra heat.

White Label, Tasmania’s leading contract distillery, produces our world-class whisky designed to our specifications and matured in specialty casks chosen by Tash and Fuzz.

We do! We use a grain base spirit from Manildra and then re-distil with the addition of our select botanicals. Everything is done by hand.

As often as possible, we source organic products to make our gin. For example, our lemons and limes come from local gardens, and we hand zest and dry all our fruit.

Great! Let’s talk more. We enjoy meeting people and sharing our stories. These are fun events, and we’re happy to travel if you’re happy to pay. Alternatively, our online tasting experiences have been a great success, catering for groups across Australia.

Not at this stage, but we hope to in due course. For now, we can post Australia-wide. Watch this space!

All our gins can be enjoyed neat, with soda or tonic. However, if you prefer a mixer, we recommend Fever-Tree as they complement our flavour profiles. When you purchase through our website, we include a free menu card matching our gins to Fever-Tree mixers.