Shortly after Robbers Dog opened for business at an old Bank SA building in Mount Pleasant its owners were paid a visit by Major Crime detectives.
Little did Robbers Dog co-founder and distiller Rob Davies know that the site had been infamously robbed by the notorious Bicycle Bandit three times.
Davies said he had “no idea” about the building’s history when he bought it, but “about nine weeks after we bought the building someone rang Crimestoppers and told them that I was the Bicycle Bandit”.
“I had Major Crimes visiting, I got interviewed, interrogated, and had to send a DNA sample, all so that I could get cleared.
“Then I researched the death out of the building and it was rather amusing so when we made our first run (of a cane spirit rum) at the distillery, it just seemed fitting that I call it the Bicycle Bandit.”
Robbers Dog this month released its first single malt…
