For three years you couldn't get a beer at Thorpdale's pub; now you can, and within a few months it will be serving its home-made flavoured vodkas.
The rejuvenation of the Travellers Rest Hotel continues after a fire in 2017 caused extensive internal damage to the 80-year-old building and looked as if it may have sounded the death knell on the small town's meeting place and popular stopover for travellers.
Taking a punt, Jill Jepson and Sean McCarthy bought the hotel and set about bringing it back to life, opening the doors again to customers in late 2020.

And they had a few extra plans in the pipeline, including installing a distillery.
An excited Ms Jepson said after "getting through a number of hurdles" they'd now been granted a permit by Baw Baw Shire and a manufacturing licence by the Australian Taxation Office for a temporary distillery and visitor centre in the building's basement to produce flavoured vodka.
The longer term plan is to develop a distillery next to the hotel.
Ms Jepson said October was in the frame for their own vodka to start flowing from the tap.
The Travellers Rest offers a typical country pub atmosphere and hospitality.
It has its bar, restaurant, function area and accommodation and opens five days a week from Wednesday to Sundays.
And, on those chilly winter days and nights, there's a couple of wood heaters to help patrons settle in.
As well as a meeting place for district locals, the hotel adds some regular entertainment for the district; a girls night out and comedy night fixed in the calendar.
Thorpdale's first hotel was built in 1908, a little over three decades after the area was opened up to harvest timber and, as the land was cleared, developed for dairy, beef, fruit and vegetable farming, especially potatoes for which the area is renowned.
The town even had a railway station next to where the Travellers Rest is located.