Hellyers Road Distillery

Hellyers Road Into the unknown Founded in 1997 by a group of dairy farmer families from Burnie in Tasmania, whose bold belief that the wild and remote North-West Tasmania was the perfect environment to create globally award winning whisky, Hellyers Road began unconventionally - and this restless spirit still lives on today. The whisky distillery takes its name from the spirit of its location and origins. A physical Hellyers Road once ran right through the middle of where the distillery now sits. A road surveyed in 1820 by one of the first Europeans to boldly explore and survey the rugged, remote North-West Tasmania - surveyor, cartographer & explorer, Henry Hellyer. The Hellyers Road dairy farmer founders shared a parallel restless spirit to the explorers quest to journey into the unknown. Beckoned by the awe of Tasmanias North-West wilderness and knowing that the quality and taste of their milk was so impressive, the dairy farmers knew the climate and water of remote North-Wes...