{"id":116638,"date":"2025-10-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=116638"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:25:18","slug":"spooky-gin-supports-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/spooky-gin-supports-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Spooky gin supports youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

KILDERKIN Distillery’s new Halloween themed, colour-changing gin is raising money for Hand in Hand Ballarat.<\/p>\n

Only 190 bottles of the peaflower gin have been created, and it takes its name Samhain from the Gaelic festival that marks the end of the harvest season.<\/p>\n

It has a bright, citrus flavour.<\/p>\n

“We thought this will make a beautiful dark spirit for Halloween and essentially we take one of our gins and put peaflower in it,” distillery owner Chris Pratt said.<\/p>\n

“We actually put quite a lot in to make it a really dark, dark spirit.<\/p>\n

“We found this wonderfully old Celtic name Samhain and it’s good because it’s all about the changing seasons and linked to Halloween.”<\/p>\n

Peaflower is a national pH indicator and the gin changes from blue to pink or purple when mixed tonic water.<\/p>\n

“Anything acidic then turns it from the blues to the pinks so you get that effect with citrus, you’ll get that effect with tonic, but you don’t get it with soda [water],” Mr Pratt said.<\/p>\n

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Kilderkin\u2019s Halloween gin supports youth mental health.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Of each bottle of gin that is sold, $10 be donated to Hand in Hand Ballarat, an organisation that helps provide resources to support young people with their mental health.<\/p>\n

“What Hand in Hand so is something that personally Rebecca [Mathews] and I both feel really strongly about which the is the mental health of young people,” Mr Pratt said.<\/p>\n

“I think the model that they use to address that is a really excellent model and it’s good to know that although that are linked to a more national charity through the Sebastian Foundation, the money all stays local.”<\/p>\n

For more information, visit the Kilderkin Distillery<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KILDERKIN Distillery’s new Halloween themed, colour-changing gin is raising money for Hand in Hand Ballarat. Only 190 bottles of the peaflower gin have been created, and it takes its name Samhain from the Gaelic festival that marks the end of the harvest season. It has a bright, citrus flavour. “We thought this will make a […]<\/p>\n

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