The bottle.
The bar.
The Brooklyn distiller.
Burly was born in Burleigh Heads in 2022. Piri Bennett, Richard, Airhia, and Rob Sendall built a gin tailored to the subtropical Gold Coast climate. Piri brought the technical foundation back from Kings County Distillery in Brooklyn, where he spent years as a bourbon distiller before coming home.
Three years later, Burly Bar opened in Currumbin. Studio Plenty designed the room. Atelier built the resin bar that mirrors the bottle. Glenn Warren Projects delivered the fit-out. The bar won the 2025 Dulux Colour Award for Interior Design twelve months after the doors opened.
The Cucumber Gin won two AGDA Silver medals in 2023, Contemporary and Flavoured. Sydney Royal added Burly to the Wynne Pavilion Distillers' Den lineup in 2025 and 2026. The bar holds a 4.8 OpenTable rating with a 4.9 ambience score, the highest in Southern Gold Coast hospitality.
The proof exists. The audience hearing about it does not.