Bootleggers Boutique

Corporate types often talk about selling ideas. At Bootlegger’s Boutique we want to give an experience. The experience of men and women through the ages, who got through trying times and washed the grime off of their hands to enjoy good food and fine ale at the end of a hard day’s work. We approach our gourmet preserves, specialised cordials and hand-crafted beers with bare knuckles and a sensitive palate in the rum-runner spirit of people like Captain Bill McCoy who, in the ugly face of poverty and prohibition, kept the booze flowing free and pure.

Charles Bukowski praised people who know that the big answers are provisional, who adjust to new conditions and are here to drink beer, kill war and laugh at the odds. Our story is a familiar one that’s been retold and rewritten in different places for different people. Childhood friends Jean Durelle and the enigmatic ‘Dutch’ found gaps and seized opportunities to make the food that they love, the way that they love it – without compromise.