Tasting notes

KILLIK Spiced Rum is a blended rum made with carefully selected rums from around the world, combined with KILLIK rum produced here in Australia.

The rums are aged between four and eight years before being blended with spices in Australia. It is lightly back-sweetened, not enough to make it a sweet rum or liqueur, but just enough to give it a soft, approachable finish.

The spice profile is fairly traditional, avoiding the overly sweet, vanilla-heavy style of many modern spiced rums.

While this rum contains classic spiced-rum notes of vanilla, ginger, allspice, and clove, its defining spice is black cardamom. Unlike the brighter, sweeter green cardamom commonly used in desserts and chai, black cardamom is a larger, darker pod traditionally dried over open fires. This gives it a smoky, earthy depth, while still carrying cardamom’s distinctive mentholated, almost medicinal spice character. It brings a savoury warmth and complexity that sets this rum apart from more vanilla-heavy modern spiced rums.

Tasting notes: KILLIK Spiced Rum is soft, rich and warming, with classic notes of vanilla, ginger, allspice and clove. Its defining spice is black cardamom, bringing smoky, earthy depth and a subtle mentholated spice character that keeps it complex without becoming a sweet vanilla bomb.

How to serve: KILLIK Spiced Rum is delicious over ice or with cola, but it really shines in simple highballs where the spice can open up. Try it with dry ginger ale, fresh lime and plenty of ice.

Spiced Rum Highball: 45ml KILLIK Spiced Rum, 120ml dry ginger ale, a squeeze of fresh lime. Build over ice and garnish with a lime wedge.

KILLIK Toasted Coconut Liqueur is a coconut rum liqueur made with our unaged KILLIK Silver Rum and real toasted coconut. Unlike cheap coconut rums made with artificial flavouring, this is aged on toasted coconut to create a deeper, richer and more natural coconut character.

It is sweetened to be perceptually sweet, because this is proudly a liqueur, soft, tropical and incredibly approachable. It is our crowd favourite and one of our best-selling bottles.

Tasting notes: KILLIK Toasted Coconut Liqueur is rich, smooth and unmistakably coconut-driven. Made with our unaged KILLIK Silver Rum and aged on real toasted coconut, it delivers deep roasted coconut flavour without the artificial, sunscreen-like character found in cheap coconut rums. It is sweet, soft and generous, with a creamy toasted finish that makes it a crowd favourite and one of our best sellers.

How to serve: KILLIK Toasted Coconut Liqueur is delicious over ice, but it is even better with pineapple juice for a simple Piña Colada-style drink. Real toasted coconut, juicy pineapple and plenty of ice make it tropical, easy and dangerously drinkable.

Toasted Coconut & Pineapple: 45ml KILLIK Toasted Coconut Liqueur, 120ml pineapple juice, a squeeze of fresh lime. Build over ice and garnish with lime or pineapple.

KILLIK Gold is our flagship product. It is a great example of an aged hogo/funky Australian cane spirit.

It is aged in Chardonnay barrels for 12 months, which mellows out the high esters and introduces rich red fruit characters.

Tasting notes: The high ester nature results in a super funky Jamaican style distillate loaded with sweet red fruit characters, cherry, strawberry lollies & bubblegum.

How to serve: KILLIK Gold is delicious by itself but also, this style is perfect for creating an authentic Mai Tai, try it out yourself!

Mai Tai: 30ml KILLIK Gold, 45ml fresh lime juice, 15ml Cointreau, 15ml simple syrup and 7.5ml orgeat

KILLIK Silver is our funky high ester white. Perfect for cocktails!

Fun fact: KILLIK is the first distillery in Australia to produce high ester rums!

Tasting notes: KILLIK Silver is a high ester white, packed with hogo flavours. You will notice strong hints of stone fruit, pear, bubblegum & a touch of molasses.

How to serve: KILLIK Silver is best mixed in cocktails! It is the perfect choice for all of your rum cocktail needs, particularly when it comes to old Tiki rum rhapsodies! Try it in our Chief Hogo or Zombie.

KILLIK Silver OP is our high ester, high proof white. The increased alcohol content really exaggerates the hogo characters, making this the best white cane spirit for classic rum cocktails!

Fun fact: KILLIK is the first distillery in Australia to produce high ester rums!

Tasting notes: KILLIK Silver is a high ester white packed with hogo flavours. You will notice strong hints of stone fruit, pear, bubblegum & a touch of molasses. Our Overproof exaggerates certain flavours and characteristics of KILLIK Silver which lends very well to cocktails.

How to serve: KILLIK Silver OP is best served in a cocktail! It is the perfect choice for all of your rum cocktail needs, particularly when it comes to old Tiki rum rhapsodies! Try it in our Hogo's There?

Hogo's There? recipe: 30ml KILLIK OP, 100ml apricot nectar, 15ml lime juice, 1/2 teaspoon of ginger sugar (1:12 ratio of caster sugar and dried ginger blended together).

Tiki Zest is our zero waste craft triple sec, made using the left over zest from all our KILLIK cocktails.

Tasting notes: Our Tiki Zest is less sweet than your traditional triple sec, with lime zest playing a predominant role.

Mango Silver Vanilla Bean is a spiced KILLIK Silver distilled with heaps of fresh mango and 50 vanilla pods.

Each bottle also contains 1 whole vanilla pod which adds to the delicious vanilla notes and gives this spirit its colour.

Tasting notes: Distinct aromas and flavours of candy-like caramel popcorn, toffee, white chocolate and vanilla cream.

KILLIK Single Cask #02 is a barrel strength pure pot still rum, an exquisite blend of high ester count and a fruity explosion of flavours, inspired by the iconic Jamaican pot still rums!

This unique and groundbreaking rum stands as the very first of its kind in Australia, and has already made waves in the rum world, winning a well-deserved SILVER at the prestigious World Rum Awards!

Tasting notes: If you’re a fan of bold, fruity and complex rum profiles, then this is THE rum for you. Our master distillers have crafted a true gem, delivering a perfect balance between intense flavour and smooth, velvety texture, without watering it down – ensuring you experience the full, rich taste of our barrel strength rum.

This product was a limited edition made for our delightful barrel investors!

It has a dark, rich colour which is a testament to the quality of this barrel strength rum.

While almost all of this exclusive release has been allocated to our investors, we have a few bottles available to the public exclusively in-store and for tastings.

GinFinity Triple Juniper is our answer to a classic dry gin. It is very juniper heavy and high in alcohol content resulting in a robust gin.

Botanicals: Juniper berries, lime zest and pink pepper.

Awards: Silver at the 2021 Australian Gin Awards

Tasting notes: The closest to a classic dry gin, our Triple Juniper is packed with juniper at 45 grams per litre with only two other botanicals, lime and pink pepper. If you love a simple, clean juniper forward gin, this is the gin for you.

How to serve: With hints of lime and pink pepper, this robust gin can be enjoyed neat, but is bold enough to shine through in a mixer, perfect for long drinks or cocktails! Garnish with a wedge of lime, or slice of cucumber. Try it in our Singapore Sling.

Previously known as Open Source #2.

GinFinity Limelight is one of our Open Source series of gins. It’s a refreshing lime heavy gin with a Christmassy finish.

Botanicals: Juniper berries, kaffir lime leaves, lime zest, cinnamon, nutmeg & mace.

Tasting notes: This is a lime heavy gin made with lime zest and kaffir lime leaves, locally sourced from Monbulk. Commonly described as a ‘Christmas spice gin’, it has Christmassy spices of cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice.

How to serve: Best with tonic and garnished with a fresh lime wheel.

Previously known as Open Source #3.

GinFinity Pulp Fiction is one of our Open Source series of gins. The orange zest creates a great citrus forward gin with some mellow chamomile and ginger.

Botanicals: Juniper berries, orange zest, ginger, coriander seed, nutmeg & chamomile.

Tasting notes: This bright orange zest gin is complemented by soft undertones of chamomile and ginger.

How to serve: Best with tonic and garnished with a fresh orange wheel. This gin is also found in our Orange Gin Sour!

GinFinity Ninja Myrtle is a citrus-packed gin built around native lemon myrtle.

Botanicals: Juniper berries, lemon myrtle, orange zest & gentian root.

Tasting notes: Packed with citrus, this gin has strong aromas of lemon myrtle and orange zest complemented perfectly by earthy undertones of gentian root.

How to serve: Great on its own or try it in our Hard Lemon Lime Bitters!

GinFinity Blush Hour is the current instalment of our rotating selection of seasonal pink gins.

Distilled with juniper, lemon and thyme, it is then steeped on luscious raspberries and vanilla bean before being filtered and sweetened for a bright, fruity and refreshing gin.

Tasting notes: This pink gin exhibits intense red fruit and berry characteristics with an underlying medicinal note. It is very bright and sweet which makes it go well in numerous cocktails, basic mixers or even neat.

This gem is a harmonious blend of aromatic osmanthus flowers, refreshing lemon, and classic juniper. The radiant hue you see? That’s courtesy of the world’s most sought-after spice, saffron. As you pour, let the floral allure of osmanthus captivate your senses, reminiscent of delicate stone fruit with a whisper of elderflower. This liqueur invites you to experience a tapestry of flavours, where traditional gin meets the enchanting charm of the East. Savour it neat or as the star ingredient in your favourite cocktail. Cheers to the symphony of nature in a bottle!

Tasting notes: Osmanthus Gin Liqueur is very sweet with strong floral notes. If you have never experienced osmanthus flowers in a drink, this will surely be one to impress. They are very distinct, aromatic and elegant.

How to serve: This liqueur is very versatile. The sweetness and elegance lends itself well to enjoy neat with ice. Tonic or soda water can really enhance and open the floral characteristics – just make sure you don’t dilute it too much.

The first of its type in the world… a high ester gin! Borrowing heavily from rum production, it is fermented with dunder, creating the crazy bubblegum characteristics. GinFinity BubbleGum gins are essentially a rum/gin hybrid inspired by old world Jamaican rum production.

Botanicals: Juniper, pineapple & mandarin

Esters are naturally occurring chemical compounds produced during the fermentation process. These esters are added before distillation and the end result is fruity characters, comparable to the fruity esters found in bubblegum.

Tasting notes: BubbleGum Gin is a very dry gin, with strong aromas of pineapple and mandarin. It has very fruit forward flavours of pineapple and mandarin, with bubblegummy and fruit-candy characters coming through last.

How to serve: BubbleGum Gin shines best in fruity cocktails where its fruity flavours are enhanced. Try it in our Tooty Fruity, Strawberry BubbleGum or Passionfruit Splice.

Tooty Fruity recipe: 30ml BubbleGum Gin, 30ml fresh orange juice, 30ml fresh pineapple juice, 20ml blue curaçao, 10ml grenadine