About us
We collaborate with great Australian spirit brands to create delicious spritz cocktails that are ready to serve, straight out of the bottle.


Our Story
Home Grown's mission is simple; get more Australians drinking the incredible local products on our doorstep. We do that through bottled and canned (coming soon...) spritzes that are quaffable, balanced and ultra-tasty.
Our range of spritzes began life at Worksmith, our umbrella company and food and beverage incubator, based out of Melbourne.
Every day at Worksmith, we’re lucky enough to have the privilege to work alongside many of hospitality’s finest, including brilliant local craft distillers and bartenders, and it got us thinking: why don’t we round up some of these amazing people and brands to create something for everyone that’s fun, accessible and tastes great?
So, we did. That was a few years ago and since then we've developed our range with our oh-so-talented Head of Product, Darren Leaney. He's been behind the drinks in some of the UK, US and Australia's best bars and now he's shaping the future of Home Grown.
We want these drinks to be your reliable go-to for great quality cocktails, wherever you are: a beach picnic, aperitivo hour in the backyard or a celebration with friends.
Cocktails, ready when you are.
OUR SPIRIT PRODUCERS

Anther
Gin
Founded in 2016 and hailing from Geelong (VIC), Anther Gin is an award-winning craft gin that showcases the art of distillation through each carefully hand-made bottle of boutique spirit. Each bottle of Anther is prepared, extracted and distilled in Geelong’s historical Federal Woolen Mills, with a history that weaves itself into each drop of craft gin. With a curiosity and love of Australian botanicals being at the heart of every spirit they create, Anther is headed by Distiller Dervilla McGowan, who left a bartending career to become a scientist with a PhD in microbiology. The result? Dervilla and the team bring a rare depth of knowledge and a perfect blend of science, nature, and botanicals to the gin-making (and drinking) experience.

Grainshaker vodka
Vodka, for me, has always been the greatest expression of the art of distillation,” said Master Distiller and legendary barkeep, Sebastian Reaburn. Seb’s Grainshaker Vodka is a true reflection of those beliefs. Copper pot-distilled and bottled in Melbourne’s inner-north, Grainshaker’s Rye Vodka is used in Home Grown’s Strawberry & River Mint Spritz for a bold, fresh spirit, and with Reaburn’s attention to detail and hands-on approach, we knew that Grainshaker was the perfect vodka to partner with.
Seb’s distilling talents don’t stop with just Vodka. With a background in bartending, choosing just one spirit would be like choosing a favourite child, and so, Seb and his team also make Ned Whisky - a locally-crafted Australian whisky that gives Australian dark spirits drinkers a genuine choice and something to call their own. Much like Home Grown, NED is forging its own path in the whisky world, with one goal in mind: to create something uniquely Australian.

ØKAR
The love child of some of South Australia’s favourite distillers at Applewood, the Økar Island Bitter is an Australian bitter that features magnificently in our Strawberry & River Mint Spritz. What’s Amaro? The most famous Amari are the lightest and most fruit driven: Aperol and Campari. Their flexibility in terms of mixing and their appearance in some of the world’s most famous drinks has made their reign as the kings of the Amari category virtually unopposed… until now says the Okar Team (we tend to agree). Amaro is less about conforming to one single idea and far more about creating tradition and using high quality ingredients. Well, lucky for us that the team at Økar work with indigenous groups and aspirational farmers to create a bitter that is built around Australia’s richly unique native ingredients to create.