GOING NUTS FOR TASSIE-MADE SUPER SPREAD

BELIEVE it or nut, but the world’s best peanut butter may very well be made right here in Tassie.

Kempton couple Ash Schuller and Terri Attrill moved to Tasmania nearly 10 years ago from Victoria with one main objective: to bring homemade peanut butter to the island state.

“It was in Victoria but it wasn’t here,” Ms Attrill told the Mercury.

“As much as peanuts are not a Tasmanian product, we thought: ‘It gives us an in and we can do Salamanca’.”

The pair are co-owners of The Olde Spikey Bridge Peanut Butter. They have a site at Salamanca Market where they spruik their peanut butter as the “world’s best” partly because they dry roast the peanuts for longer than usual “to bring out the flavour”.

The couple have another roasting trick up their sleeve, but said they would be nuts to share that information with anyone.

Mr Schuller and Ms Attrill started making peanut butter out of their Kempton home but recently realised they needed a bigger space. “When we roasted, it wasn’t a home, it became a factory for a day,” Ms Attrill said.

The Mercury was given special access to the factory they now use to freshly roast their product, located less than 100m from the home they share with their children and Peanut the whippet. “Not many people have had the opportunity to be in here,” Mr Schuller joked.

He said peanut butter catered to most dietary requirements – except, of course, nut allergies – and was made using Queensland peanuts and a pinch of Australian sea salt. The crunchy and smooth peanut butter can be found in 130 outlets across Tasmania.