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When breakfast meets cocktail hour: In one of the more unique flavour profiles, Australia's most highly awarded distillery Archie Rose Distilling Co. is launching ArchieMite Buttered Toast Spirit. It will launch on May 8 [mate].

Buttered toast with a yeast extract spread is a quintessential breakfast or even any-time-of-day meal in Australia. Archie Rose Distilling Co's new limited edition ArchieMite Buttered Toast Spirit is an experimental dip into this side of Aussie culture, bringing to market a savoury, buttery, unaged spirit inspired by Australia’s love for umami-rich breakfast spreads.

Only 3000 bottles of the possibly divisive spirit has been created using a combination of individually distilled ingredients including 25kg of freshly churned Pepe Saya Butter, 15kg of toasted Sonoma sourdough bread and a selection of blended yeast-extract spreads (“mites”).

“Some people will hate it, some will love it. Some people will drink it neat in a Martini (we recommend a Gibson) and some will like just a delicate touch of its flavour in another cocktail. If you like umami-rich flavours, you’ll really enjoy it,” says Harriet Leigh, Archie Rose head of Hospitality.

Sydney-based branding and design studio, Squad Ink, worked alongside Archie Rose to create the packaging which, the studio says, “respectfully marries popular Australian consumer culture with progressive craft distilling”.

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