How Much Tax Is in a Bottle of Spirits in Australia? (2026)
A $50 bottle of spirits carries $35.39 of excise and GST. How spirits tax works, what it adds to common bottles, and a free calculator.
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How Much Tax Is in a Bottle of Spirits in Australia? (2026)
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Distilling with the Grainfther
Turn the Grainfather into a microdistillery by attaching the Alembic Condenser and Dome Top to the top. Whiskeys are also made from grain and follow a similar process to brewing...
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Cocktail Series: Top Shelf Tennessee Whiskey
Top Shelf Tennessee Whiskey is a smooth and complex American style whiskey with lingering woody notes. Our friends at Bundaberg Brewed Drinks have come up with this fantastic cocktail using their signature...
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How to use the Still Spirits Alembic Pot Condenser
STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS: Step 1: Making the wash Add your choice of cleared fermented wash to the boiler. Step 2: Prepare the Alembic Pot Still Attach the copper condenser...
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Making Fine Whiskey from Grains using the Still Spirits Alembic Pot Condenser
This recipe has been updated, please click below to see the blog post for the latest recipe: How to make Malt Whiskey from Grain Use the grains appropriate to the style of whisky...
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Metropolitan Cocktail Recipe: The Brandy Manhattan, Made at Home
A Metropolitan is 45 ml brandy, 30 ml sweet vermouth, 2.5 ml (half a teaspoon) of sugar syrup and 2 dashes of Angostura bitters. Stir it over ice and strain...
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Apricot Brandy Cocktails: Seven Recipes and the Base Pac
Apricot brandy is the bottle that sits at the back of the cupboard because nobody quite knows what it is for. It is not brandy, for a start. It is...
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How to make Premium Vodka
This recipe has been updated, please click below to see the blog post for the latest recipe: Method 1: How to make Vodka using potatoes Method 2: How to make Vodka using sugar Vodka is...
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Coffee Cocktails: Seven Classics and the Liqueur to Use
Coffee and alcohol is the oldest trick in the book for making a drink feel like an occasion, and the Espresso Martini has been Australia's most ordered cocktail for years...
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Chocolate Orange Cocktail: Chocolate Cream Liqueur and Orange Juice
A Chocolate Orange is 2 parts chocolate cream liqueur to 3 parts fresh orange juice. That's 60 ml of liqueur and 90 ml of juice over ice, garnished with orange...
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Cocktails! Make a Carmel Coke with Still Spirits Icon Butterscotch Schnapps
Remember Vanilla Coke? This is better. Way better. Simply mix a shot of Still Spirits Icon Butterscotch Schnapps with a can of coke and bob's your uncle.
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Cocktails! Make a Death in the Afternoon with Still Spirits Top Shelf Absinthe
A cocktail created by no less than Hemingway himself. His advice, circa 1935: "Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass. Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness....
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Cocktails! Make a Fuzzy Thing with Still Spirits Top Shelf Citrus Vodka
Try something new! A Fuzzy Think is a sweet, innocent tasting cocktail that will no doubt leave you a little fuzzy the next morning! Here's the recipe: 2 shots of Still...
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Cocktials! Make the perfect Manhattan with Still Spirits Top Shelf Rye Whisky
The manhattan is so popular that loads of people have tried to claim its creation. We like the simplest explanation - that it was invented in the 1860s by a bartender...
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