The Australian Distillers Association is pleased to partner with The Distillers Institute, to offer members access to their courses.

ABOUT

The Distillers Institute provides Australia #1 online business courses to help distillery owners, plan, launch and grow their businesses.

Their mission is to help people thinking of starting a distilling business, do the market and financial research, to ensure this type of business is for them - through their “Planning Your Successful Distilling Business” online course.

Since April 2020, more than 650 people have started a course at The Distillers Institute, with around 10% of those going on to open their own successful distilling business.

Their courses help with the business, marketing and financial side of starting a successful distilling business.

Created by industry experts with over 50 years combined experience in the industry, in Australia and New Zealand, The Distillers Institute will help you make the right decision whether a distilling business is for you, and if so open sooner, in less time and at a lower cost.

COURSES

The courses The Distillers Institute currently offers are listed below, can be started any time, done at your own pace online and all courses include:

• An active Private Facebook group
• A recommended suppliers list, and
• Monthly webinars with distillery owners and industry exports (there are 60+ past webinars you can watch as soon as you start one of their courses).

Please click on the links for more information, and to sign-up with a special limited time 10% off your first course purchase, thanks to the Australian Distillers Association:

The ‘Planning Your Successful Distilling Business’ course

If you need to do the research and decide if starting a distilling business is for you.

This course takes you on a targeted journey, covering everything you need to know to plan your own distillery. From thinking through ideas, planning finances, and working out all the things needed to plan or purchase along the way.

It should be considered as the starting point for anyone thinking about a distilling business, and helps you to understand the challenges involved in starting and how you might begin your journey into the world of spirits and distilling.

1. Knowledge about distilling
2. Business planning including finances, people and training
3. Marketing a distilling business including creating and building a brand
4. Product planning including what to make and when
5. Setting up and determining scale, and
6. Navigating compliance and licences.

Be sure to purchase from these links to get 10% off your first course purchase.