The world’s leading international gin producer, Yarra Valley-based distiller Four Pillars, will open its Surry Hills ‘Laboratory’ officially on Friday, 12 June 2020 … the eve of World Gin Day.
The Four Pillars Laboratory at 410 Crown Street, Surry Hills in the Bussell Brothers building will incorporate a Gin Shop, Gin Lab featuring a working experimental still (Eileen, named after co-founder Matt’s mother), and a destination cocktail bar, Eileen’s Bar.
All three elements will be open for business from Friday, 12 June 2020, ready for what has been unofficially re-named ‘World Gin Weekend’. To celebrate, Four Pillars is putting together a weekend of activities, masterclasses and cocktail-fuelled fun for Sydney’s keenest gin lovers to toast the responsible relaxation of lockdown.
The overarching development of the Surry Hills Laboratory has been led by Four Pillars Co-founder Matt Jones and Experience Director Leah Mackenzie, in concert with Yasmine Ghoniem from YSG Studio (formerly Amber Road). Eileen’s Bar is the love child of Four Pillars Creative Drinks Director James Irvine, who collaborated on the bar design through virtual reality with world-leading, Oslo-based bar design agency Behind Bars, led by Jaye O’Dwyer.
The Gin Shop on the ground floor will feature all the signature and limited-edition gins that have made Four Pillars Australia’s favourite gin producers, alongside the bar gear, books, merch and Made From Gin marmalade and chocolate that we all know and love.
The Four Pillars Gin Shop will be open from 10am-6pm every day.
THE GIN LAB
Four Pillars gin masterclasses hosted by Co-founder Stuart Gregor.
Co-founder and Gin Lab Licensee, Stuart Gregor, will be in the Gin Lab hosting SEVEN masterclasses for just 10 guests each, over the Opening Weekend.
Each masterclass, priced at $75 per person, will run approximately 60 minutes with a welcome G&T included, tasting of at least four gins (probably more), plenty of stories, some random music and a world-first look around the venue and at Eileen the still and Eileen’s Bar.
Friday, June 12. 4pm and 6pm.
Saturday, June 13. 12pm, 2pm, 4pm.
Sunday, June 14. 2pm and 4pm.
Tickets for the World Gin Weekend Inaugural Masterclasses will be made available initially to subscribers only, who can join the Four Pillars family at . Subscribers will receive ticketing information on Monday, 1 June 2020.
