Sticky Carpet Gin

Name: Sticky Carpet Gin
Brand: Four Pillars Gin
SKU: FPGSCG0700
Price: 88.0 AUD
Availability: InStock

They say the follow-up album is often never better than the first, but we’re here to prove them wrong. Five years after its initial release, one of our most requested limited-edition gins – Sticky Carpet Gin – is back!

Made with Little Creatures Pale Ale and hops, this gin is beautifully balanced with a dense juniper canvas, a chewy, malty hops character and a bright citrus note.

700mL

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First released in 2019 to celebrate the re-opening of Melbourne institution, the Hotel Esplanade, this gin is a tribute to Australia’s great hotels and their front bars, the carpets sticky with beer and thick with stories.

For the second coming, we’ve switched the original stout out for a more aromatic and lifted pale ale and poured the beer straight into the still with the base spirit. We’ve then added juniper, coriander, honey, roasted barley, cassia, macadamia nuts and orris root, while the fresh lemon peel and ginger go into the botanical basket.

The hops get their own little spot in a bag hung above the spirit because they can expand and block the still. And if that happens, the still explodes and the distillery is no more. Safety aside, it’s also a great way to extract the aromatics because it gets a bit hotter than the botanical basket.

By opening the plates of the still for the first half of the distillation and closing them for the second half, the citrus, hops, and honey characters can come through early, while the malty, textural characters come through quite late.

The final gin is beautifully balanced, just like a great pale ale, with a dense canvas of resiny juniper and deep brown spice notes. There’s a chewy, malty hops character that hangs on from the macadamia nut and overall, it’s a touch fruity with a bright citrus note.

And this time around, it's available for you to try in venues around the country! Scroll down for the full list, head into our homes in Healesville or Sydney’s Surry Hills or grab a bottle for your own home right here.

Beer and gin, who’d have thunk it?

Juniper

location: Macedonia

Without juniper, there is no gin. When distilled, it adds a medicinal flavour with notes of pine needles. Juniper is grown wild, and the berries are harvested by hand on mountain slopes.

Little Creatures Pale Ale

location: Geelong

Hoppy, citrus and tropical fruit characteristics, with a hint of bitterness.

Hops blend

location: US & Australia (provided by Little Creatures)

This particular blend is a mix of Chinook, grown out of the US, and Casacade, which is a mixture of both US and Australian grown. The hops bring spicy citrus aromas with hints of zesty grapefruit.

Honey

location: Yarra Valley

We use Organic Yalumba honey collected from younger Eucalyptus trees, some from our own distilling team’s backyard! The flavour is floral and sweet, with hints of orange bloom.

Roasted barley

location: Australia

Coffee and dark chocolate characteristics with a hint of nuttiness.

Lemon peel

location: Yarra Valley

For that bright citrus, zesty zing!

Coriander

location: South Australia

We source coriander seeds locally for their intense aromatics. We use the dry seeds (not fresh leaves) and they produce amazing lemony citrus notes when crushed and distilled.

Cassia

location: Sri Lanka

This spice is made from the bark of East Asian trees related to the ‘true cinnamon’ of Sri Lanka. Cassia adds a distinct richness to our gin, bringing all the other spices together.

Macadamia nut

location: Queensland

The Australian macadamia may be the most expensive nut in the world, and the hardest to crack. But it’s worth it for the sweet, buttery flavour and texture these native nuts provide.

Orris root

location: Morocco

The root of the iris plant, orris has a distinctive floral quality. Used sparingly as a base in gin and perfume.

Lemon myrtle

location: Queensland

Lemon Myrtle is a beautiful alternative to lemon peel when distilling. Its floral character mingles with the other spices without dominating any flavours, textures or aromas.

Lavender

location: Yarra Valley

Lavender is used sparingly to lift the other aromatics, so it isn’t an obvious character in the final gin. Grown locally, though occasionally we have to source from France.