Maker Stories

Tell us about your background and what led you to becoming a producer on the Central Coast? Eastcoast Beverages was born in 1965 when my grandfather, Salvatore Lentini, began picking and packing fresh fruit from his Central Coast orchards to supply to Australia’s famous Flemington Markets. Years later, when tariffs on imported juice concentrate were […]

Tell us about your background and what led you to becoming a producer on the Central Coast I first got the taste for a potential love of coffee in 2009, as I frequented a great spot on King Street in the city by Mecca coffee, realising my love of this beverage, I Sat down with

Tell us about your background and what led you to becoming a producer on the Central Coast I have been a whisky aficionado for about 20 years, and for a long time dreamed of the possibility of establishing a distillery. In 2017 my good friend Phil Townsend, whom I met through a Central Coast astronomy

Tell us about your background and what led you to becoming a producer on the Central Coast Like most hobby brewers, I started brewing beer at home in the garage. I was so passionate about brewing that I even designed and built my own computerised brewing system. When I saw that Block ’N Tackle was

Tell us about your background and what led you to becoming a producer on the Central Coast Before making gin I had Australia’s largest wholesale herb nursery based in Warnervale, the most plants I grew in a year was 983,000. Very much into plants, I decided after selling the business I still wanted to work

Tell us about your background and what led you to becoming a producer on the Central Coast I’m originally from Czech Republic and started the business in 2012 on the kitchen table. I have fond memories of eating gingerbread at Christmas while growing up, but I could not find the flavours in local gingerbread that

Tell us about your background and what led you to becoming a producer on the Central Coast My grandfather Keith Barry started oyster leases in the Hawkesbury back in the 1950s. He had a great affinity with the water, setting Australia’s first world water speed record in 1950 (116kph in a hydroplane Firefly II, very

Tell us about your background and what led you to becoming a producer on the Central Coast I have worked in the herb and spice industry for most of my life. After starting Herbie’s Spices in 1997 in Rozelle in Sydney, we ran out of room and needed a factory. We already had a house

Tell us about your background and what led you to becoming a producer on the Central Coast Chris grew up on the Central Coast and started home brewing at 21. The idea of becoming a fully-fledged producer began during a cycle trip in Western Australia. We discovered several small breweries on the trip and a

Tell us about your background and what led you to becoming a producer on the Central Coast We used to make cheese as a hobby and got favourable feedback from our family and friends. Being cheese lovers and wanting to buy locally, my wife and I were amazed that the Hunter Valley was the closest