Launching Your Successful Distilling Business Course

This course is designed for people who are ready to open the doors of their distillery, and serious about making their business successful for the long-term.

How will it help your business?

There are nine detailed modules that work through the technical and business pain points for people starting new distillery businesses.

This includes how to set up production, systematise your business and what happens after the ATO grants your licence to distil.

This is a rich course with incredibly valuable insights you won't find in one place anywhere else.

10 business challenges it will help solve

1. Designing and engineering your layout 
2. Ordering equipment and planning timelines
3. Preparing to commission your equipment
4. Setting up business system and preparing to employ staff
5. How to build a spirit profile and nailing your recipe
6. Commencing and optimising production, including record-keeping
7. Tools, templates, SOPs and checklists to support production
8. Skills and training needed in distilling
9. How to consolidate your business processes

10. Preparing for growth and thinking about marketing and sales, people and funding

Who is the course for?

1. Graduates of our Planning course: people who have completed the Planning Your Successful Distilling Business course, and
2. Distillers starting the journey of opening their distillery: Distillery owners who are serious about becoming a thriving business. It might be that you want to lay the foundation for future growth and develop robust systems to support this goal.

How long will it take?

Like all our online courses, Launching Your Successful Distilling Business is self-paced and designed to support you as you work through business and production challenges in your distillery.

The course is best worked through over a few months as you set up, commence production, start ordering equipment or supplies and start commissioning your distillery before you open your doors.

What do people say about The Distillers Institute?

The Distillers Institute online course is a must for anyone thinking of entering the distilling business. What I have found, having built a few businesses from scratch, is that it takes years to gain the industry knowledge of what is available in this course.

I have been so impressed with the professional content and the support from Anne on my journey into distilling.  If you are wanting to equip yourself with a broader knowledge of the spirit industry and put yourself years ahead on your journey then sign up and get started. You will love it.

-Peter Mumford - New distiller and real estate founder and CEO

Watch our course preview video with Anne

This professional course, Launching Your Successful Distilling Business, is available at $2,795 including GST. 

We’ve built the course to be the equivalent of a professional business course, and it is designed to be essential professional development for any new distilling business owner that wants to establish a sustainable business, and production practices in their distillery for the future. 

It is the first of two professional courses focusing on business operation and growth.

A new Course 3, Growing Your Successful Business, will be available in December 2024 and focuses on People (recruitment, leadership, management), Marketing (brand, advertising, sales, distribution), and Funding for Growth (debt, grants, asset finance, investment).

This Launching course builds on the work students undertook in the Planning your Successful Distilling Business course, and will match the journey that a new business will take as they move into years one to five. 

At the end of this course you will have worked through:

1. Your project Plan and GANTT chart (100+ actions to take to open sooner, at less cost and risk)
2. Your projections for the future (a 10 Year Complex Financial Model is included)
3. The Cost of Manufacture for each of your products, and refined your recipes
4. Put systems in place to manage your business and production, and
5. Improved your professional development capability across your distillery.

We’re confident this Course will be a vital professional development tool for your business and your future.

Welcome to the next level.

Purchase the "Launching Your Successful Distilling Business" course now!

You can purchase the course with one upfront payment. Or, if you prefer to spread the payment over three months we add an extra $100 to the total.