The Iron House Distillery, Brewery and vineyard are central feature of the White Sands Estate at Four Mile Creek on Tasmania’s pristine East Coast.

The Estate boasts a resort, brewery, distillery, restaurant, bar, vineyard, trout lake, and boat ramp – not to mention the private McIntyre’s Beach that it sits adjacent to. Apparently, that boat ramp was the clincher when the current owner purchased the Estate back in 2003.

The ‘Iron House Brewery’, named after the first structure erected on the land it sits on in the 1800’s – a tin roofed drover’s hut known as ‘The Iron House’ - is run by Michael Briggs. It commenced brewing operations in 2007. In 2015, a 1500L hybrid Kothe still from Germany was purchased and, once they worked out how it went together (it came with no instructions whatsoever so the story goes), they had a brewery/distillery!

The decision to add a distillery was considered a no brainer. They could easily make more beer than they could sell locally – so instead of looking to market outside Tasmania – they chose to add a distillery to use that extra wash! Beer’s loss – whiskies gain!