Spirits of the Mountains

Blue Mountains Gin Company puts spirits where they should be – on top of the mountains. Our gins, vodkas and other products are inspired by the magnificent Blue Mountains, rising more than one kilometre above sea level west of Sydney. This World Heritage region of sandstone escarpments and eucalypt wilderness draws millions of visitors each year. It’s an inspiring place and our company is driven by the notion that both people value and appreciate products that are mode here locally. In the photo at right, North Katoomba – where our distillery and bar are located – is  in the foreground, with the valleys and Mount Solitary in the distance.

What We Make

Our growing range of gins, vodkas and other drinks offers a wide field of flavours to please the palates of discerning drinkers. From our smooth Classic London Dry-style to our delicious new Shiraz Gin and our top-rated award-winning Wild Dog Vodka, you can be assured of quality products. We also have a ready-to-drink pre-mixed Boars Head Negroni and a popular alcoholic Ginger Devil Ginger Beer, among other offerings. All drinks and prices are listed on our Products page, where they can be purchased online.

Small-batch Production

We are a craft distillery creating small batches of alcoholic drinks products. We utilise two distillation units (stills), one for gin and the other for vodka output. All parts of the process are hands-on; there is no automated production system. Botanicals are prepared by hand, as are bottling, corking and packaging for sale. This is the inverse of mass manufacturing in big-scale plants where machines do nearly all the work. Our system is labour-intensive rather than capital-intensive, and fortunately many people appreciate the specialness of this approach.

Our Bar & Tasting Room

The Blue Mountains Gin Company distillery started making gin five years ago, in 2021. Building on the success of our products since then, two years ago we launched The Factory Bar, located at 24 Whitton Street, North Katoomba. The  bar showcases our products and also operates as a general bar, with cocktails, bar food, regular entertainment and a great atmosphere.

As the only licensed bar north of the highway in Katoomba, and the only one in the Blue Mountains connected with a functioning distillery, The Factory Bar is unique. It offers a relaxed atmosphere in stylish rooms that retain elements of their former life as a factory building with an interesting history.

Because of its location, parking at the bar is easy and, in the front garden visitors are greeted on most evenings with a friendly blaze in an open metal fireplace. Inside, there’s usually plenty of seating (not guaranteed on busy nights) and friendly staff behind the bar ready to serve customer.

Live music by local acts takes place on Friday and Saturday from about 6.30 to 8.30pm. Customers regularly tell us The Factory Bar is among their favourite venues in the mountains: Come and check it out, if you have not visited yet.

Full details of drinks, food and other offerings are listed on The Factory Bar section of this site.

Our Goals

Five years ago we at Blue Mountains Gin Company set out on our mission to create drink products that would become synonymous with their place of origin; the Blue Mountains. We have gone some way towards achieving this aim and are striving to extend our achievements.

While we want our products to have unique appeal as modern artisan products, we also aim to be part of venerable traditions in the centuries-old spirit drinks industry. Around Australia, somewhere about 700 distilleries – most of them small like us – are turning out great new spirits that appeal to people who enjoy the authentically individual creations of small producers. These premium products – and the customers supporting them – are key to the spectacular ‘rebirth’ of gin and the ongoing appeal of vodka as versatile spirit drinks for good taste and good times.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Blue Mountains Gin Company acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we live on, the Durug and Gundungurra First Nation Peoples. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures.