- We're definitely in
these times together.
All you've got is community right.
If you help your community,
you support your community
they'll support you and it goes around.
And everyone can look after each other.
In big cities, in big towns,
you don't get that right.
But here on the Gold Coast
we have that community feel.
It's an amazing place.
I'm Dave Ridden, I'm one of the owners
of Grandad Jacks, craft
distillery here on the Gold Coast.
We built this distillery in
honour to my grandfather,
granddad Jack.
He was born in a little
town in the South Island
of New Zealand back in 1919,
but unfortunately his dad
passed away before he was born
so it left him and him mom at a young age,
trying to save the family farm.
So you can imagine at 13 years old,
he was sent out to work by his mum,
so it was a pretty tough gig growing up
in the early 1930s as a young lad.
I remember the Sunday
night we finished up here,
we'd had a fantastic
weekend and then we get home
and we see our prime minister,
close down hospitality,
like that, you have no business.
All your customers are gone,
you can't open your distillery.
You're not allowed to, we
have certain staff here
that all have to pay bills.
So it's a very very tough time.
Those 48 hours were horrendous.
We identified a couple of opportunities
to make some ethanol
and also hand sanitizer.
So when we make spirit, we
start with what we call a wash.
A distillers wash.
So that's anything that
can create sugar and yeast
to eat that sugar to create alcohol.
And so usually we would
put that in our still
at around 10% ABV, but
when we make this ethanol,
putting a wash in our still,
at 9, 10% is not enough.
To give you an example,
we put 1200 litres of wash
into our still.
We only get around 140
litres out at 95% pure
and we know from the reports that this bug
loves to sit on the surface,
especially stainless steel
so that's why we chose
to go away from the gel
and stick with a spray.
So you can spray that on,
on your hands perfect,
but if you're going to the supermarket,
spray it on the trolley handle,
if you're getting in someone's
car, spray it on that
and also you get a lot more,
it will last a lot longer, in a spray form
than it does in a gel form.
There's something my grandfather taught me
and I was 15 years old
and I never forgot it,
he told me, in business,
never ever chase money.
Get up every morning and do
the best thing you possibly can
and money will just be a part of it.
It will be something that just happens.
That stands stead today,
and with the environment we're in now,
let's not worry about ourselves,
let's make sure we look
after someone else.
If we do that, then we'll be fine.
And we're all going through a tough time.
There's no one, got it easy
and so the only way we're
gonna get through this
is work together, help each other out.
- We are Grand dad Jacks.
- We are your local community business.
- We are Gold Coast.
