Hornibrook Vodka Orange

If you enjoy a Vodka and Orange (juice), you’ll love this as you get the Orange flavour without the need for juice!

• ABV is 45% and in our signature 500ml bottle
• Batch 1: Released April 2025

Award winning Vodka

Awarded Silver Medal at the 2025 Australian International Spirits Awards in the Flavour Distilled Vodka Category.

“Big bright bold orange on the nose, like freshly squeezed juice, not at all soapy or oxidised. Slightly confectionery but not at all unnatural and very inviting. Bitterness comes through on the palate and hangs on through the finish, but the clarity and intensity of orange flavour is right there throughout. Can see a lot of good cocktail applications here…”

Awarded Bronze Medal at the 2025 Royal Queensland Awards in the Flavour Distilled Vodka Category.

“The nose shows an abundance of complex orange ranging from sweet fresh fruit, Jaffa chocolate, marmalade and candied orange peel. Candied orange on the nose with some Berocca brightness.”

“The intensity is pronounced, and a background pithy character is not overly distracting. Some green, orange notes creep in, which draw the aroma away from the more focused orange notes. The palate is driven by sherbet, and the pithy character is more pronounced here, giving some satisfying dryness…and has clear cocktail applications (Cosmo, etc.).”

Where the idea came from…

The idea for this Vodka came about after seeing the waste skins from 100% Fresh Orange Juice at the Redcliffe Markets. Since our aim is to be Zero Waste, we acquired one of these 20kg bags, cut them up and soaked the skins for a week in high ABV Vodka. We then distilled with the skins in the boiler. Due to the high natural oils that came through with the final product, we had to slowly dilute down to our release ABV over a period of three months.